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cryosleep

noun

cryosleep is spelled C-R-Y-O-S-L-E-E-P: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cryosleep means “A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cryosleep?

Letters9: C-R-Y-O-S-L-E-E-P
In writingabout once in every 45 million words; the 206,808th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is cryosleep?

Cryosleep appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).

How do you pronounce cryosleep?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-cryosleep.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does cryosleep mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.

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

Cryosleep in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
GermanKryoschlaf
Spanishcriosueño, criodormición

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 cryosleep come from?

From cryo- + sleep.

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

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