treelike
adjective
treelike is an adjective meaning “Having some characteristics of a tree; resembling or similar to a tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-E-E-L-I-K-E, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does treelike mean?
adjective
- 1
Having some characteristics of a tree; resembling or similar to a tree.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of treelike
- more treelike comparative
- most treelike superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is treelike?
Treelike appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).
Treelike in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Having some characteristics of a tree:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | baumartig, baumähnlich |
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 treelike come from?
From tree + -like. Compare Swedish trädliknande (“treelike”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).