thermophilic
adjective
thermophilic is spelled T-H-E-R-M-O-P-H-I-L-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is thermophillic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Thermophilic is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to a thermophile; living and thriving at relatively high temperatures”.
How many letters and syllables are in thermophilic?
| Letters | 12: T-H-E-R-M-O-P-H-I-L-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, thermophillic, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell thermophilic?
Thermophilic is spelled T-H-E-R-M-O-P-H-I-L-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for thermophilic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is thermophilic?
Thermophilic appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).
Forms of thermophilic
- more thermophilic comparative
- most thermophilic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does thermophilic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to a thermophile; living and thriving at relatively high temperatures.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Thermophilic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense living at high temperatures:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | termófilo |
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 thermophilic come from?
From thermo- + -philic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).