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Lemurian

adjective, noun

Lemurian is spelled L-E-M-U-R-I-A-N: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Lemurian means “Of or pertaining to the mythical Lemuria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Lemurian?

Letters8: L-E-M-U-R-I-A-N
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is Lemurian?

Lemurian appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).

Forms of Lemurian

  • more Lemurian comparative
  • most Lemurian superlative
  • Lemurians plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Lemurian mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to the mythical Lemuria.

  2. 2

    Relating to the Ancient Roman festival of Lemuria.

noun

  1. 1

    An inhabitant of the mythical Lemuria.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does Lemurian come from?

From Lemuria + -an.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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