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physisorption

noun

physisorption is spelled P-H-Y-S-I-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, physisorption means “adsorption in which the forces involved are intermolecular rather than chemical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of physisorption is physisorptions.

How many letters and syllables are in physisorption?

Letters13: P-H-Y-S-I-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th 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 physisorption?

Physisorption 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).

Forms of physisorption

  • physisorptions plural

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

What does physisorption mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    adsorption in which the forces involved are intermolecular rather than chemical

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

Where does physisorption come from?

Blend of physical + adsorption.

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

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