lubricious
/luˈbɹɪʃəs/
"lubricious" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lubricious” 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) - Smooth and glassy; slippery.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lubricious · lubricious · English
lubricious · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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 | lubricious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /luˈbɹɪʃəs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lubricious” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lubricious is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /luˈbɹɪʃəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lubricious, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous. The correct English form is lubricious, spelled L-U-B-R-I-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Smooth and glassy; slippery.
- 2Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lubricious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony.
Lubricious bank managers and building society chairmen who have never danced before throw off their jackets, confess to barren lives and worship Rick the giver of their sun and rain.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.
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.