ichthyological
adjective
ichthyological is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to ichthyology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-C-H-T-H-Y-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ichthyological mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to ichthyology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ichthyological?
Ichthyological appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).
Ichthyological in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ichthyological:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ichthyologique |
| German | ichthyologisch |
| Portuguese | ictiológico |
| Spanish | ictiológico |
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 ichthyological come from?
From ichthyologic + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).