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polychaeta

noun

polychaeta is spelled P-O-L-Y-C-H-A-E-T-A: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, polychaeta means “Any annelid worm of the class Polychaeta” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of polychaeta is polychaetas or polychaetae.

How many letters and syllables are in polychaeta?

Letters10: P-O-L-Y-C-H-A-E-T-A
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st 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 polychaeta?

Polychaeta appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 polychaeta

  • polychaetas plural
  • polychaetae plural

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

What does polychaeta mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any annelid worm of the class Polychaeta

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

Where does polychaeta come from?

From the class name.

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

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