anovulatory
adjective
anovulatory is an adjective meaning “Not ovulatory; characterized by anovulation (a lack of ovulation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-O-V-U-L-A-T-O-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anovulatory mean?
adjective
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Not ovulatory; characterized by anovulation (a lack of ovulation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anovulatory?
Anovulatory appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
Anovulatory in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense characterized by a lack of ovulation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anovulatoire |
| Portuguese | anovulatório |
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.
Where does anovulatory come from?
From an- + ovulatory.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).