phyllotaxis
/fɪləˈtæksɪs/noun
phyllotaxis is spelled P-H-Y-L-L-O-T-A-X-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is phylotaxis: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Phyllotaxis is a noun meaning “The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement”. The plural of phyllotaxis is phyllotaxes.
How many letters and syllables are in phyllotaxis?
| Letters | 11: P-H-Y-L-L-O-T-A-X-I-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, phylotaxis, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell phyllotaxis?
Phyllotaxis is spelled P-H-Y-L-L-O-T-A-X-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for phyllotaxis in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is phyllotaxis?
Phyllotaxis appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).
How do you pronounce phyllotaxis?
- /fɪləˈtæksɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of phyllotaxis
- phyllotaxes plural
- phyllotaxy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does phyllotaxis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement.
- 2
An abortive style.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Phyllotaxis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The arrangement of leaves on a stem:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | filotaxis |
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 phyllotaxis come from?
From phyllo- + taxis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).