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mesophilic

adjective

mesophilic is an adjective meaning “of, or relating to a mesophile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-S-O-P-H-I-L-I-C, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does mesophilic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    of, or relating to a mesophile

  2. 2

    living and thriving at moderate temperatures

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

Forms of mesophilic

  • more mesophilic comparative
  • most mesophilic superlative

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

How common is mesophilic?

Mesophilic appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).

Mesophilic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense thriving at moderate temperatures:

LanguageWords
Portuguesemesófilo

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.