fibrous
fi·brous/ˈfaɪbɹəs/adjective
fibrous is spelled F-I-B-R-O-U-S, 2 syllables: fi·brous. The wrong spelling people search most is fiberous: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Fibrous is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to fibre”.
How many letters and syllables are in fibrous?
| Letters | 7: F-I-B-R-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: fi·brous |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,168th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, fiberous, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell fibrous?
Fibrous is spelled F-I-B-R-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for fibrous in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is fibrous?
Fibrous appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th 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).
How do you pronounce fibrous?
- /ˈfaɪbɹəs/
Fibrous has 2 syllables, split fi·brous in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fibrous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fibrous
- more fibrous comparative
- most fibrous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fibrous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to fibre.
- 2
Containing many fibres - referring mainly to food.
- 3
Having the shape of fibres.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fibrous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to fibre:
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 fibrous come from?
From fibre + -ous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).