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aluminous

adjective

aluminous is spelled A-L-U-M-I-N-O-U-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, aluminous means “of or pertaining to alumina or alum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in aluminous?

Letters9: A-L-U-M-I-N-O-U-S
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th 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 aluminous?

Aluminous appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).

What does aluminous mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    of or pertaining to alumina or alum

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

Aluminous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense of or pertaining to alumina or alum:

LanguageWords
Frenchalumineux
Portuguesealuminoso
Spanishaluminoso

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 aluminous come from?

From alumina + -ous.

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

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