autotrophic
adjective
autotrophic is an adjective meaning “Relating to the production of organic compounds from carbon dioxide as a carbon source, using either light or reactions of inorganic chemical…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-O-T-R-O-P-H-I-C and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does autotrophic mean?
adjective
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Relating to the production of organic compounds from carbon dioxide as a carbon source, using either light or reactions of inorganic chemical compounds, as a source of energy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce autotrophic?
Autotrophic 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).
How common is autotrophic?
Autotrophic appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).
Autotrophic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | autotroph |
| Portuguese | autotrófico |
| Spanish | autótrofo |
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 autotrophic come from?
From auto- + -trophic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).