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phoria

noun

phoria is spelled P-H-O-R-I-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, phoria means “Synonym of heterophoria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of phoria is phorias.

How many letters and syllables are in phoria?

Letters6: P-H-O-R-I-A
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is phoria?

Phoria appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of phoria

  • phorias plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does phoria mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of heterophoria.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does phoria come from?

from Ancient Greek -φορία (-phoría), from φέρειν (phérein, “to bear”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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