dioecious
/daɪ̯ˈiːʃəs/adjective
dioecious is spelled D-I-O-E-C-I-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is dioeceous: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 35 of all searches for the word. Dioecious is an adjective meaning “Having the male and female reproductive organs on separate plants (of the same species) rather than different…”.
How many letters and syllables are in dioecious?
| Letters | 9: D-I-O-E-C-I-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dioeceous, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell dioecious?
Dioecious is spelled D-I-O-E-C-I-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 35 of the searches for dioecious in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is dioecious?
Dioecious appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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 dioecious?
- /daɪ̯ˈiːʃəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-dioecious.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dioecious
- diaecious
- diœcious
- dioicous
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dioecious mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having the male and female reproductive organs on separate plants (of the same species) rather than different parts of the same plant.
- 2
rareHaving two distinct sexes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dioecious in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense botany: having the male and female reproductive organs on separate plants:
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 dioecious come from?
From di- + -oecious.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).