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lignocellulosic

adjective, noun

lignocellulosic is spelled L-I-G-N-O-C-E-L-L-U-L-O-S-I-C: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, lignocellulosic means “Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in lignocellulosic?

Letters15: L-I-G-N-O-C-E-L-L-U-L-O-S-I-C
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 154,067th 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 lignocellulosic?

Lignocellulosic appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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 lignocellulosic

  • lignocellulosics plural

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

What does lignocellulosic mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.

noun

  1. 1

    Any material composed of lignocellulose

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

Where does lignocellulosic come from?

From lignocellulose + -ic.

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

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