micro-organism

Questions about micro-organism

What does micro-organism mean?

micro-organism means "any organism of microscopic size".

How many syllables are in micro-organism?

micro-organism has 4 syllables and divides as mi-cro-or-ga-nism under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for micro-organism?

Close synonyms include microorganism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is micro-organism a common word?

micro-organism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.