boric
adjective
boric is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-O-R-I-C and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does boric mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce boric?
- US
Boric has 2 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)-Flame,_not_lame-boric.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is boric?
Boric appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,913th 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).
Boric in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to the element boron:
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.