dolichocephalic
adjective, noun
dolichocephalic is spelled D-O-L-I-C-H-O-C-E-P-H-A-L-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is dolicocephalic: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Dolichocephalic is an adjective meaning “Having a head that is long from front to back (relative to its width from left to right)”.
How many letters and syllables are in dolichocephalic?
| Letters | 15: D-O-L-I-C-H-O-C-E-P-H-A-L-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 56 million words; the 234,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dolicocephalic, about 40 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 dolichocephalic?
Dolichocephalic is spelled D-O-L-I-C-H-O-C-E-P-H-A-L-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for dolichocephalic 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 dolichocephalic?
Dolichocephalic appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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 dolichocephalic?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Eleanorrrrrrrrrr-dolichocephalic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dolichocephalic
- more dolichocephalic comparative
- most dolichocephalic superlative
- dolichocephalics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dolichocephalic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having a head that is long from front to back (relative to its width from left to right).
noun
- 1
A dolichocephalic person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dolichocephalic come from?
From dolicho- + cephalic, hence literally roughly “long-headed”.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).