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pyritic

py·ri·ticadjective

pyritic is spelled P-Y-R-I-T-I-C: 7 letters and 3 syllables (py·ri·tic). It appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, pyritic means “of, relating to, or consisting of pyrite or pyrites” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in pyritic?

Letters7: P-Y-R-I-T-I-C
Syllables3: py·ri·tic
In writingabout once in every 93 million words; the 309,272nd 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 pyritic?

Pyritic appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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).

How do you pronounce pyritic?

    Pyritic has 3 syllables, split py·ri·tic in writing.

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

    What does pyritic mean?

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

    adjective

    1. 1

      of, relating to, or consisting of pyrite or pyrites

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

    Where does pyritic come from?

    From pyrite + -ic.

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

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