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transantarctic

adjective

transantarctic is an adjective meaning “Across or spanning the Antarctic (the continent of Antarctica and the sea ice of the Southern Ocean that meets its shores)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-A-N-S-A-N-T-A-R-C-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does transantarctic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Across or spanning the Antarctic (the continent of Antarctica and the sea ice of the Southern Ocean that meets its shores).

    a transantarctic trek

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

How common is transantarctic?

Transantarctic appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).