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paleosol

noun

paleosol is spelled P-A-L-E-O-S-O-L: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, paleosol means “A layer of fossil soil buried beneath other sediments or deposits” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of paleosol is paleosols.

How many letters and syllables are in paleosol?

Letters8: P-A-L-E-O-S-O-L
In writingabout once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th 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 paleosol?

Paleosol appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 paleosol

  • paleosols plural
  • palaeosoil
  • paleosoil
  • palaeosol

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

What does paleosol mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A layer of fossil soil buried beneath other sediments or deposits.

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

Where does paleosol come from?

From paleo- + -sol.

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

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