diagenetic
adjective
diagenetic is an adjective meaning “of, or relating to diagenesis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-I-A-G-E-N-E-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does diagenetic mean?
adjective
- 1
of, or relating to diagenesis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is diagenetic?
Diagenetic appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).
Diagenetic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or relating to diagenesis:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | diagenétique |
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 diagenetic come from?
From dia- + genetic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).