feculent
/ˈfɛkjʊlənt/adjective
feculent is an adjective meaning “Dirty with faeces or other impurities” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-C-U-L-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does feculent mean?
adjective
- 1
Dirty with faeces or other impurities
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce feculent?
- UK /ˈfɛkjʊlənt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of feculent
- more feculent comparative
- most feculent superlative
- faeculent
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feculent?
Feculent appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Feculent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense feculent:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | fäkulent, kotartig, kotig, verkotet, verschmutzt |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does feculent come from?
From Middle French feculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).