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xerophytic

adjective, noun

xerophytic is spelled X-E-R-O-P-H-Y-T-I-C: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, xerophytic means “Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in xerophytic?

Letters10: X-E-R-O-P-H-Y-T-I-C
In writingabout once in every 44 million words; the 204,233rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is xerophytic?

Xerophytic appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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 xerophytic

  • xerophytics plural

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

What does xerophytic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte

  2. 2

    Having a very dry environment

noun

  1. 1

    xerophyte

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

Where does xerophytic come from?

From xerophyte + -ic.

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

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