subfossil
noun
subfossil is a noun meaning “A partially fossilized organism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-B-F-O-S-S-I-L, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of subfossil is subfossils.
What does subfossil mean?
noun
- 1
A partially fossilized organism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of subfossil
- subfossils plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is subfossil?
Subfossil appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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).
Subfossil in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Subfossil |
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 subfossil come from?
From sub- + fossil.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).