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photogrammetry

noun

photogrammetry is spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-M-M-E-T-R-Y: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, photogrammetry means “The making of precise measurements from photographs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of photogrammetry is photogrammetries.

How many letters and syllables are in photogrammetry?

Letters14: P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-M-M-E-T-R-Y
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 75,877th 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 photogrammetry?

Photogrammetry appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th 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 photogrammetry

  • photogrammetries plural

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

What does photogrammetry mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The making of precise measurements from photographs.

  2. 2

    The making of maps from photographs, especially from aerial surveying.

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

Photogrammetry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense senses 1 and 2:

LanguageWords
Frenchphotogrammétrie
GermanPhotogrammetrie
Portuguesefotogrametria
Spanishfotogrametría

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does photogrammetry come from?

From photograph formed as photogram and the suffix -metry?

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

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