intertidal
adjective, noun
intertidal is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to the part of a shore between the high water and the low water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-E-R-T-I-D-A-L and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does intertidal mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to the part of a shore between the high water and the low water.
noun
- 1
An intertidal zone or an organism that inhabits such a zone
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce intertidal?
Intertidal 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).
Forms of intertidal
- intertidals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is intertidal?
Intertidal appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,108th 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).
Intertidal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to shore between high and low tide mark:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | intercotidal, intertidal |
| Spanish | intermareal |
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 intertidal come from?
From inter- + tidal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).