exuviate
/ɪɡˈzjuː.vɪ.eɪt/
"exuviate" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exuviate” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. 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) - To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
Corpus desk
Index EN-exuviate · exuviate · English
exuviate · 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 | exuviate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪɡˈzjuː.vɪ.eɪt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “exuviate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exuviate is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ɪɡˈzjuː.vɪ.eɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).".
exuviate has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin exuviae (“what is shed”), from exuō (“cast off, strip”). The correct English form is exuviate, spelled E-X-U-V-I-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exuviate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow.
Although multicultural societies are difficult to manage, they need not become a political nightmare and might even become exciting if we exuviate our long traditional preoccupation with a culturally homogeneous and tightly structured polity and allow them instead to intimate their own appropriate institutional forms, modes of governance, and moral and po…
Etymology
From Latin exuviae (“what is shed”), from exuō (“cast off, strip”).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.