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estuarine

adjective

estuarine is spelled E-S-T-U-A-R-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is estaurine: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Estuarine is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to an estuary”.

How do you spell estuarine?

Estuarine is spelled E-S-T-U-A-R-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for estuarine in either form.

estuarinethe right spelling190 searches a month
estaurineu and a swapped20 searches a month

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.

What does estuarine mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to an estuary.

  2. 2

    Formed in an estuary by alluvial deposition.

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

Forms of estuarine

  • more estuarine comparative
  • most estuarine superlative

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

How common is estuarine?

Estuarine appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd 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).

Estuarine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense pertaining to an estuary:

LanguageWords
Portugueseestuarino

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 estuarine come from?

From estuary + -ine.

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