polyphagous
adjective
polyphagous is spelled P-O-L-Y-P-H-A-G-O-U-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, polyphagous means “Eating many types of food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in polyphagous?
| Letters | 11: P-O-L-Y-P-H-A-G-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 polyphagous?
Polyphagous appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 polyphagous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Eating many types of food.
Animals show various degrees of adaptation aimed at taking advantage of available resources, but. . . most can be considered either specialists or generalists. Among plant-eating insects the more specific terms polyphagous, oligophagous, an
- 2
Feeding on many different species of host plants.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does polyphagous come from?
From poly- + -phagous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).