estrous
adjective
estrous is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or in a state of estrus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-S-T-R-O-U-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does estrous mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or in a state of estrus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce estrous?
Estrous has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of estrous
- oestrous
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is estrous?
Estrous appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).
Estrous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Of or relating to estrus:
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.