deltic
adjective
deltic is an adjective meaning “Synonym of deltaic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-L-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does deltic mean?
adjective
- 1
Synonym of deltaic.
noun
- 1
UKA British Rail Class 55 locomotive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is deltic?
Deltic appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
deltic0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Englishmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does deltic come from?
From delta + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).