gonococcal
/ɡɒnəˈkɒkl̩/adjective
gonococcal is an adjective meaning “Of, or pertaining to, gonococcus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-N-O-C-O-C-C-A-L and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does gonococcal mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, or pertaining to, gonococcus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gonococcal?
- UK /ɡɒnəˈkɒkl̩/
Gonococcal has 4 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).
How common is gonococcal?
Gonococcal appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 gonococcal come from?
From gonococc(us) + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).