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silicic

adjective

silicic is spelled S-I-L-I-C-I-C: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, silicic means “of, related to, or derived from silica” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in silicic?

Letters7: S-I-L-I-C-I-C
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th 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 silicic?

Silicic appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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 silicic mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    of, related to, or derived from silica

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

Silicic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense relating to silica:

LanguageWords
Frenchsilicique

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 silicic come from?

From Latin silex, silicis (“a flint”). Compare French silicique.

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

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