phononic
adjective
phononic is an adjective meaning “Relating to the study of phonons” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-O-N-O-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does phononic mean?
adjective
- 1
Relating to the study of phonons.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is phononic?
Phononic appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th 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).
Phononic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to the study of phonons:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | phononique |
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.
Where does phononic come from?
From phonon + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).