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prolificacy

noun

prolificacy is spelled P-R-O-L-I-F-I-C-A-C-Y: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, prolificacy means “Great fecundity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of prolificacy is prolificacies.

How many letters and syllables are in prolificacy?

Letters11: P-R-O-L-I-F-I-C-A-C-Y
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th 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 prolificacy?

Prolificacy appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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 prolificacy

  • prolificacies plural

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

What does prolificacy mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Great fecundity.

  2. 2

    Producing of a large number of literary or artistic works.

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

Where does prolificacy come from?

From its morphology, prolific + -acy.

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

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