opercular
adjective, noun
opercular is spelled O-P-E-R-C-U-L-A-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, opercular means “relating to the operculum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in opercular?
| Letters | 9: O-P-E-R-C-U-L-A-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is opercular?
Opercular appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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 rhymes with opercular?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as opercular.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: preocular.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of opercular
- operculars plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does opercular mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
relating to the operculum
opercular bone
noun
- 1
The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).