boletus
noun
boletus is a noun meaning “An edible mushroom of genus Boletus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-O-L-E-T-U-S, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of boletus is boletuses or boleti.
What does boletus mean?
noun
- 1
An edible mushroom of genus Boletus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce boletus?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-EnthusiasticLlama-boletus.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of boletus
- boletuses plural
- boleti plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is boletus?
Boletus appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).
Boletus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a type of edible mushroom – see also porcini:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Dickröhrling |
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 boletus come from?
Borrowed from Latin bōlētus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).