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oolitic

adjective, noun

oolitic is spelled O-O-L-I-T-I-C: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, oolitic means “Made up of, or containing oolites” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in oolitic?

Letters7: O-O-L-I-T-I-C
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th 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 oolitic?

Oolitic appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 oolitic

  • more oolitic comparative
  • most oolitic superlative
  • oolitics plural

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

What does oolitic mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Made up of, or containing oolites

  2. 2

    datedobsoleteOf a prehistoric era; Jurassic.

noun

  1. 1

    An oolite.

  2. 2

    datedobsoleteA prehistoric era; the Jurassic.

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

Where does oolitic come from?

From oolite + -ic.

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

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