glandulous
"glandulous" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glandulous” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or composed of glands; glandular, glandulose.
Corpus desk
Index EN-glandulous · glandulous · English
glandulous · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glandulous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glandulous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
glandulous is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, pertaining to, or composed of glands; glandular, glandulose.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glandulous, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Late Latin glandulōsus, from Latin glandula. The correct English form is glandulous, spelled G-L-A-N-D-U-L-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or composed of glands; glandular, glandulose.
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin glandulōsus, from Latin glandula.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.