deltaic
adjective
deltaic is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to a river delta” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-L-T-A-I-C and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does deltaic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to a river delta.
- 2
Shaped like the letter delta (Δ), or like an equiangular or equilateral triangle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce deltaic?
Deltaic has 3 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).
How common is deltaic?
Deltaic 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 deltaic come from?
From delta + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).