Microscopic · #994 biggest of 1,014
How big is a yeast cell?
4 µm
A yeast cell measures 4 µm. That's about 40 viruses lined up end to end.
By the numbers
- That's 4 micrometers (µm) — far too small to see with the naked eye.
- You'd need about 425,000 of them stacked up to reach the height of an average adult.
- Roughly 40 viruses could line up across it.
- Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #994 by size.
Size comparison
How yeast cell stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.
fog droplet
10 µm
red blood cell
7.5 µm
red blood cell
7.5 µm
chloroplast
5.0 µm
yeast cell
4.0 µm
bacterium (E. coli)
2.0 µm
mitochondrion
1.0 µm
wavelength of red light
7.0e+2 nm
wavelength of blue light
4.5e+2 nm
Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!
Fun fact
It's so small that about 250 of them would fit across a single millimeter.
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