meiotic
adjective
meiotic is spelled M-E-I-O-T-I-C: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, meiotic means “Of or pertaining to meiosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in meiotic?
| Letters | 7: M-E-I-O-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 84,254th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 meiotic?
Meiotic appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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).
What does meiotic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to meiosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Meiotic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to meiosis:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | méiotique |
| German | meiotisch |
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 meiotic come from?
Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiotic in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Equivalent to meio- + -tic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).