ectopic
adjective, noun
ectopic is spelled E-C-T-O-P-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is octopic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 122 of all searches for the word. Ectopic is an adjective meaning “Relating to ectopia”.
How many letters and syllables are in ectopic?
| Letters | 7: E-C-T-O-P-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 43,663rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, octopic, 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 ectopic?
Ectopic is spelled E-C-T-O-P-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 122 of the searches for ectopic 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 ectopic?
Ectopic appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,663rd 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).
Forms of ectopic
- more ectopic comparative
- most ectopic superlative
- ectopics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ectopic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Relating to ectopia.
- 2
Being out of place; having an abnormal position.
noun
- 1
colloquialEctopic beat.
- 2
colloquialAn ectopic pregnancy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ectopic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 ectopic come from?
From ectopia + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).