psychrophilic
adjective
psychrophilic is an adjective meaning “Especially of certain bacteria: capable of living at relatively low temperature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-R-O-P-H-I-L-I-C, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does psychrophilic mean?
adjective
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Especially of certain bacteria: capable of living at relatively low temperature.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is psychrophilic?
Psychrophilic appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).
Psychrophilic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | psychrophile |
| German | psychrophil |
| Portuguese | psicrófilo |
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 psychrophilic come from?
From psychro- + -philic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).