epistatic
adjective, noun
epistatic is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to epistasis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-P-I-S-T-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does epistatic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to epistasis.
noun
- 1
Any material that causes epistasis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of epistatic
- epistatics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is epistatic?
Epistatic appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).
Where does epistatic come from?
Adjective form of epistasis; compare static and stasis. The adjectival use in genetics was coined by English biologist William Bateson in 1909 in his book Mendel's Principles of Heredity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).