feculence

noun

"feculence" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“feculence” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being feculent.

Corpus desk

Index EN-feculence · feculence · English

feculence · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for feculence
PropertyValue
Headwordfeculence
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “feculence” in English

feculencesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

feculence is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for feculence, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From French féculence, from Latin faeculentia. Doublet of feculency. The correct English form is feculence, spelled F-E-C-U-L-E-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The state or quality of being feculent.
  2. 2
    Feculent matter; dregs, filth.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how feculence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. At least his hangover was on the wane; all he felt now were a certain wateriness in the lower belly, and a feculence of mucus ramed up both nostrils, not unlike two small coral reefs.

Etymology

From French féculence, from Latin faeculentia. Doublet of feculency.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feculence"?
"feculence" is spelled F-E-C-U-L-E-N-C-E.
What does "feculence" mean?
As a noun, "feculence" means: The state or quality of being feculent.
What is the origin of the word "feculence"?
From French féculence, from Latin faeculentia. Doublet of feculency. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list