anticyclone
noun
anticyclone is a noun meaning “A system of winds that spirals out from a center of high pressure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-C-Y-C-L-O-N-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anticyclone is anticyclones.
What does anticyclone mean?
noun
- 1
A system of winds that spirals out from a center of high pressure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anticyclone?
- US
Anticyclone has 4 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-anticyclone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of anticyclone
- anticyclones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anticyclone?
Anticyclone appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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).
Anticyclone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense system of winds:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anticyclone |
| German | Antizyklon, Antizyklone, Hochdruckgebiet |
| Portuguese | anticiclone |
| Spanish | anticiclón |
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 anticyclone come from?
From anti- + cyclone. Coined by Sir Francis Galton in the 1860s.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).