anencephalic
adjective, noun
anencephalic is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting anencephaly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-E-N-C-E-P-H-A-L-I-C and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anencephalic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting anencephaly.
- 2
slangStupid; brainless.
noun
- 1
A person, especially a fetus or newborn, affected by anencephaly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anencephalic?
Anencephalic has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anencephalic
- anencephalics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anencephalic?
Anencephalic appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anencephalic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to or exhibiting anencephaly:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anencefálico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.