prokaryotic
adjective
prokaryotic is spelled P-R-O-K-A-R-Y-O-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is procaryotic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 63 of all searches for the word. Prokaryotic is an adjective meaning “Of or having the characteristics of prokaryotes, especially bacteria”.
How many letters and syllables are in prokaryotic?
| Letters | 11: P-R-O-K-A-R-Y-O-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 69,055th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, procaryotic, about 10 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 prokaryotic?
Prokaryotic is spelled P-R-O-K-A-R-Y-O-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 63 of the searches for prokaryotic 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 prokaryotic?
Prokaryotic appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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 prokaryotic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or having the characteristics of prokaryotes, especially bacteria.
- 2
Of cells, lacking a nucleus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prokaryotic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of cells, lacking a nucleus:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | procariótico |
| Spanish | procariótico |
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 prokaryotic come from?
From prokaryote + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).