bifid

adjective

bifid is an adjective meaning “Cleft; divided into two principal or main parts, such as two lobes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-F-I-D, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does bifid mean?

adjective

1
Cleft; divided into two principal or main parts, such as two lobes.
Near-synonyms: bifurcated, bipartite, bilobar, bilobular, split, forked

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

How common is bifid?

Bifid appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.

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rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).