triffid
/ˈtɹɪfɪd/noun
triffid is a noun meaning “A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-I-F-F-I-D, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of triffid is triffids.
What does triffid mean?
noun
- 1
A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger
- 2
colloquialAny of the sea anemones of the genus Aiptasia with poisonous tentacles, which are a pest in aquaria.
- 3
Any large, fast-growing and hard-to-remove weed, such as the flowering shrub Chromolaena odorata.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce triffid?
- /ˈtɹɪfɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-triffid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of triffid
- triffids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is triffid?
Triffid appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).
Triffid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a fictional plant:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | triffide |
| German | Triffid |
| Spanish | trífido |
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.