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electromotive

adjective

electromotive is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-O-M-O-T-I-V-E: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, electromotive means “of, relating to, or producing the movement of electrons (an electric current)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in electromotive?

Letters13: E-L-E-C-T-R-O-M-O-T-I-V-E
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is electromotive?

Electromotive appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).

What does electromotive mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    of, relating to, or producing the movement of electrons (an electric current)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Electromotive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense causing electrons to move:

LanguageWords
Portugueseeletromotor

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 electromotive come from?

From electro- + motive.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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