pleiotropic
adjective
pleiotropic is spelled P-L-E-I-O-T-R-O-P-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is pleotropic: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Pleiotropic is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to pleiotropy”.
How many letters and syllables are in pleiotropic?
| Letters | 11: P-L-E-I-O-T-R-O-P-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 23 million words; the 145,125th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, pleotropic, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell pleiotropic?
Pleiotropic is spelled P-L-E-I-O-T-R-O-P-I-C. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for pleiotropic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is pleiotropic?
Pleiotropic appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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 pleiotropic
- more pleiotropic comparative
- most pleiotropic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pleiotropic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to pleiotropy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pleiotropic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to pleiotropy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pléiotropique |
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 pleiotropic come from?
From pleiotropy + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).