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physiognomic

adjective

physiognomic is spelled P-H-Y-S-I-O-G-N-O-M-I-C: 12 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, physiognomic means “Of or pertaining to physiognomy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in physiognomic?

Letters12: P-H-Y-S-I-O-G-N-O-M-I-C
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th 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 physiognomic?

Physiognomic 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 does physiognomic mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to physiognomy.

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

Physiognomic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense of or relating to physiognomy:

LanguageWords
Portuguesefisionômico
Spanishfisiognómico, fisonómico

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 physiognomic come from?

From physiognomy + -ic.

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

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