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metaplastic

adjective

metaplastic is spelled M-E-T-A-P-L-A-S-T-I-C: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, metaplastic means “Relating to, or produced by metaplasia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in metaplastic?

Letters11: M-E-T-A-P-L-A-S-T-I-C
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd 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 metaplastic?

Metaplastic appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 metaplastic

  • more metaplastic comparative
  • most metaplastic superlative

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

What does metaplastic mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to, or produced by metaplasia.

  2. 2

    Relating to metaplasticity.

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

Metaplastic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense relating to, or produced by metaplasia:

LanguageWords
Frenchmétaplastique

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.

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