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postapocalyptic

adjective

postapocalyptic is spelled P-O-S-T-A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-T-I-C: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, postapocalyptic means “Alternative form of post-apocalyptic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in postapocalyptic?

Letters15: P-O-S-T-A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-T-I-C
In writingabout once in every 24 million words; the 148,541st 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 postapocalyptic?

Postapocalyptic appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 postapocalyptic mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative form of post-apocalyptic.

    The novel dealt with life in a postapocalyptic France.

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

Where does postapocalyptic come from?

From post- + apocalyptic.

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

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