follicular
adjective
follicular is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, having or resembling follicles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-L-I-C-U-L-A-R, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does follicular mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, having or resembling follicles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce follicular?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-follicular.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is follicular?
Follicular appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th 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).
Follicular in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to the follicle:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | folliculaire |
| German | follikular, follikulär, follikelartig, follikel-, Follikel- |
| Portuguese | folicular |
| Spanish | folicular |
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.