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boracic

/bɔˈɹæsɪk/adjective

boracic is an adjective meaning “Relating to, or impregnated with borax” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-O-R-A-C-I-C, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does boracic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to, or impregnated with borax.

  2. 2

    datedSynonym of boric.

  3. 3

    slangpenniless

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

How do you pronounce boracic?

  • /bɔˈɹæsɪk/

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

Forms of boracic

  • more boracic comparative
  • most boracic superlative
  • brassic
  • brassick

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

How common is boracic?

Boracic appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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).

Boracic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchboracique, borique (Relating to borax), fauché, fauchée (penniless)

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 boracic come from?

From Medieval Latin borax (genitive boracis), itself via Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Persian بوره (bura).

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