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azoic

adjective

azoic is an adjective meaning “Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-Z-O-I-C, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does azoic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    datedDestitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life.

  2. 2

    datedBefore the existence of animal life.

  3. 3

    Relating to azo dyes.

adjective

as Azoic
  1. 1

    Alternative form of azoic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is azoic?

Azoic appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).

Azoic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense anterior to the existence of animal life:

LanguageWords
Frenchazoïque
Spanishazoico

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 azoic come from?

From a- + -zoic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).