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fictious

/ˈfɪkʃəs/obsolete

fictious is an adjective meaning “Fictitious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-C-T-I-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fictious mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoleteFictitious.

  2. 2

    obsoleteAddicted to or characterized by fiction.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fictious?

  • /ˈfɪkʃəs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fictious?

Fictious appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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).

Where does fictious come from?

From ficti(on) + -ous, as if Latin *fictiōsus, from fictiō.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).