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The AltF Lexicon word of the day for Wednesday, 29 April 2026 is entozoan — an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to entozoa". It is said en-to-zo-an, stressed on "to".
of or relating to entozoa
entozoan carries 3 recorded senses in total. Open the full entry to read them all, grouped by part of speech and each with its own synonyms, antonyms and broader and narrower terms.
4 syllables, with the beat on "to" — en-to-zo-an.
This word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so the syllable split above was derived from its spelling and no phonetic transcription is printed. A guessed one that looked authoritative would be worse than none.
It carries 3 senses, spread across 2 parts of speech (adjective and noun) — against a corpus average of 1.4 an entry. The meaning you already know is usually not the only one.
Its first sense is filed in WordNet's relational adjective file, for adjectives that mean “of or pertaining to” some noun, which is where the relations below come from rather than from any editorial judgement of ours.
Commonness band 3 of 5 — Familiar. Widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 10,501 of the 147,478 entries share that band, measured against a corpus of everyday English rather than assigned by an editor.
Every sentence above is derived from the entry’s stored record. Nothing here is a story about where the word came from, because the corpus does not carry etymology and a plausible invented one would be the only unverifiable claim on the page.
Wednesday, 29 April 2026 is day 119 of its year, and slot 119 of the 366-word rotation holds entozoan. The mapping is arithmetic on the date and nothing else, so this page said the same thing a year ago and will say it a year from now, and every other day in the archive resolves the same way. How the rotation works, in full.
Definitions, examples and semantic relations come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.