Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

microtask

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mi-cro-task
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A very small or simple task.

Example Sentences

"Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web marketplace for crowdsourcing microtasks, such as answering surveys and image tagging."

Etymology

From micro- + task.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: micro

Inflected Forms

microtasks (plural)

Derived Forms

microtasking

Questions

What does microtask mean?: A very small or simple task.
Where does microtask come from?: From micro- + task.

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