microorganism

Other forms of microorganism

plural

microorganisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about microorganism

What does microorganism mean?

microorganism means "any organism of microscopic size".

How many syllables are in microorganism?

microorganism has 6 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˌmaɪkɹoʊˈɔɹɡəˌnɪzəm/.

What is another word for microorganism?

Close synonyms include micro-organism. 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 microorganism a common word?

microorganism 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.

What rhymes with microorganism?

43 words rhyme with microorganism. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.