glutinaceous

adj

"glutinaceous" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“glutinaceous” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of glutinous.

Corpus desk

Index EN-glutinaceous · glutinaceous · English

glutinaceous · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for glutinaceous
PropertyValue
Headwordglutinaceous
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “glutinaceous” in English

glutinaceousranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

glutinaceous is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of glutinous.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glutinaceous, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin glūtin-, stem of glūten, + -aceous. The correct English form is glutinaceous, spelled G-L-U-T-I-N-A-C-E-O-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonym of glutinous.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how glutinaceous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The glutinaceous substance of wafers, to say nothing of the colours, if much be eaten, may occasion dangerous stoppages in the intestines.
  2. On cooking, the real glutinaceous macaroni swells up to more than double its original thickness without becoming at all pasty or falling apart, so that the fact of its preserving its tubular form is one of the best proofs of its excellence.

Etymology

From Latin glūtin-, stem of glūten, + -aceous.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glutinaceous"?
"glutinaceous" is spelled G-L-U-T-I-N-A-C-E-O-U-S.
What does "glutinaceous" mean?
As an adjective, "glutinaceous" means: Synonym of glutinous.
What is the origin of the word "glutinaceous"?
From Latin glūtin-, stem of glūten, + -aceous. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list