trophoblast
/ˈtɹɒfə(ʊ)blɑːst/noun
trophoblast is spelled T-R-O-P-H-O-B-L-A-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is throphoblast: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 22 of all searches for the word. Trophoblast is a noun meaning “The membrane of cells that forms the wall of a blastocyst during early pregnancy, providing nutrients to the…”. The plural of trophoblast is trophoblasts.
How many letters and syllables are in trophoblast?
| Letters | 11: T-R-O-P-H-O-B-L-A-S-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 24 million words; the 148,541st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, throphoblast, 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 trophoblast?
Trophoblast is spelled T-R-O-P-H-O-B-L-A-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for trophoblast 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 trophoblast?
Trophoblast appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 trophoblast?
- UK /ˈtɹɒfə(ʊ)blɑːst/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of trophoblast
- trophoblasts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does trophoblast mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The membrane of cells that forms the wall of a blastocyst during early pregnancy, providing nutrients to the embryo and later developing into part of the placenta.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does trophoblast come from?
From tropho- + -blast.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).