avaricious
/ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/
"avaricious" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“avaricious” is an uncommon English word, ranked #90,163 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #90,163
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avaricious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avaricious” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for avaricious is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/. Corpus data places it at rank #90,163 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.".
avaricious has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”). The correct English form is avaricious, spelled A-V-A-R-I-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
Etymology
From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is A-V-A-R-I-C-I-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.