isotropic
/ˌaɪsəˈtɹɑpɪk/adjective
isotropic is spelled I-S-O-T-R-O-P-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is isotrophic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 81 of all searches for the word. Isotropic is an adjective meaning “Having properties that are identical in all directions; exhibiting isotropy”.
How many letters and syllables are in isotropic?
| Letters | 9: I-S-O-T-R-O-P-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 52,954th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, isotrophic, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell isotropic?
Isotropic is spelled I-S-O-T-R-O-P-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 81 of the searches for isotropic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is isotropic?
Isotropic appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,954th 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).
How do you pronounce isotropic?
- UK /ˌaɪsəˈtɹɒpɪk/
- US /ˌaɪsəˈtɹɑpɪk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-isotropic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with isotropic?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as isotropic from its last stressed vowel (/ɑpɪk/):
- topic
- microscopic
- philanthropic
- anisotropic
- kaleidoscopic
- misanthropic
- gyroscopic
- hygroscopic
- anthropic
- orthotropic
- homotopic
- allotropic
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does isotropic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having properties that are identical in all directions; exhibiting isotropy
- 2
Having the same components in all rotated coordinate systems
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Isotropic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having properties that are identical in all directions; exhibiting isotropy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | isotrope |
| German | isotrop |
| Portuguese | isotrópico |
| Spanish | isotrópico |
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 isotropic come from?
From iso- + -tropic, from Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).