fat-soluble
"fat-soluble" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fat-soluble” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soluble in lipids, and in organic solvents; soluble in fats, (medicine) and therefore tending to accumulate in the fat and adipose tissue of the body.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fat-soluble · fat-soluble · English
fat-soluble · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | fat-soluble |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fat-soluble” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fat-soluble is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soluble in lipids, and in organic solvents; soluble in fats, (medicine) and therefore tending to accumulate in the fat and adipose tissue of the body.".
fat-soluble doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is fat-soluble, spelled F-A-T---S-O-L-U-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Soluble in lipids, and in organic solvents; soluble in fats, (medicine) and therefore tending to accumulate in the fat and adipose tissue of the body.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fat-soluble appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
fat-soluble vitamin
Lyme Disease toxins and most of the toxins produced by industrialized manufacturing are fat-soluble, so named because they accumulate in the body's fat stores.
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.