exude
/ɪɡˈzjuːd/
"exude" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exude” is uncommon English (frequency #51,694 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,694
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
Corpus desk
Index EN-exude · exude · English
exude · rank #51,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,694
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH facepalm
Nearest frequency peer: facepalm (+2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “exude”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- escapade
escapade
48,312 corpus weight
- Essie
Essie
48,311 corpus weight
- expending
expending
48,310 corpus weight
- exude
exude
48,307 corpus weight
- facepalm
facepalm
48,305 corpus weight
- factorial
factorial
48,304 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “exude” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exude |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪɡˈzjuːd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “exude” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exude is uncommon English at frequency #51,694 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɪɡˈzjuːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for exude in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Latin exudāre, exsudāre (“to sweat out”), from ex- (“out, out of”) + sudāre (“to sweat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-. The correct English form is exude, spelled E-X-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
- 2To flow out through the pores.
- 3To give off or radiate a certain quality or emotion, often strongly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are five hundred and fifty-five trees, and they exude the sweetest odours
The molten glass exudes into the space outside the outer crucible, and a filament is pulled from the exudant to form a cored glass fiber.
Etymology
Latin exudāre, exsudāre (“to sweat out”), from ex- (“out, out of”) + sudāre (“to sweat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.
This word in other languages
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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