stratiform
adjective
stratiform is an adjective meaning “Occurring in layers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-R-A-T-I-F-O-R-M, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does stratiform mean?
adjective
- 1
Occurring in layers
- 2
Descriptive of rocks with extensive horizontal development
- 3
Descriptive of clouds with extensive horizontal development
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of stratiform
- more stratiform comparative
- most stratiform superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stratiform?
Stratiform appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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).
Where does stratiform come from?
From Latin stratus (“layer”) + -form.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).