microphotography
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The field of study of creating microphotographs, of photographing very small items or areas.
Uncountable
Etymology
Etymology tree English micro- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) French photographiebor. English photography English microphotography From micro- + photography.