ceric
adjective
ceric is spelled C-E-R-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is cerric: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Ceric is an adjective meaning “Containing cerium with valence four”.
How many letters and syllables are in ceric?
| Letters | 5: C-E-R-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 52 million words; the 225,584th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cerric, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell ceric?
Ceric is spelled C-E-R-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for ceric in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is ceric?
Ceric appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).
What does ceric mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Containing cerium with valence four.
- 2
Relating to wax.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ceric in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense containing cerium with valence four:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cérique |
| Spanish | cérico |
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.