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fibrillary

adjective

fibrillary is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to fibrils, or nanoscale fibers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-B-R-I-L-L-A-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fibrillary mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to fibrils, or nanoscale fibers

    a fibrillary structure

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

How common is fibrillary?

Fibrillary appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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 fibrillary come from?

From fibril + -ary.

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