flexuous
/ˈflɛkʃ(ə)wəs/adjective
flexuous is an adjective meaning “winding from side to side; sinuous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-E-X-U-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flexuous mean?
adjective
- 1
winding from side to side; sinuous
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flexuous?
- US /ˈflɛkʃ(ə)wəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flexuous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flexuous
- more flexuous comparative
- most flexuous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flexuous?
Flexuous appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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).
Flexuous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sinuous:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | flexueux |
| Spanish | flexuoso |
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 flexuous come from?
From Latin flexuosus, from flexus (“bend”), from flectere (“bend”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).