fictitious
fic·ti·tious/fɪkˈtɪʃəs/adjective
fictitious is spelled F-I-C-T-I-T-I-O-U-S: 10 letters and 3 syllables (fic·ti·tious). It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, fictitious means “Invented; contrived” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in fictitious?
| Letters | 10: F-I-C-T-I-T-I-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: fic·ti·tious |
| In writing | 1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is fictitious?
Fictitious appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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 fictitious?
- US /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/
Fictitious has 3 syllables, split fic·ti·tious in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-fictitious.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with fictitious?
10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fictitious from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃəs/):
- delicious
- ambitious
- nutritious
- superstitious
- auspicious
- pernicious
- judicious
- surreptitious
- bootylicious
- lubricious
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of fictitious
- ficticious
- fictious
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fictitious mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Invented; contrived.
Near-synonyms: fake, fictional
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fictitious in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense invented:
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 fictitious come from?
Borrowed from Latin fictīcius.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).