edacious
"edacious" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“edacious” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-edacious · edacious · English
edacious · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | edacious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “edacious” in English
Rare enough to double-check
edacious is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for edacious in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin edā(c) (“gluttonous, greedy”) (from edō (“to eat”)) + -ious (adjectival suffix). The correct English form is edacious, spelled E-D-A-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Having an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish.
Etymology
From Latin edā(c) (“gluttonous, greedy”) (from edō (“to eat”)) + -ious (adjectival suffix).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.