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chemotactic

adjective

chemotactic is an adjective meaning “Relating to or exhibiting chemotaxis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-M-O-T-A-C-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does chemotactic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to or exhibiting chemotaxis.

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

How common is chemotactic?

Chemotactic appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).

Where does chemotactic come from?

From chemo- + -tactic.

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