glutinaceous
"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
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 | glutinaceous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glutinaceous” in English
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
- 1Synonym of glutinous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glutinaceous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The glutinaceous substance of wafers, to say nothing of the colours, if much be eaten, may occasion dangerous stoppages in the intestines.
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.