lubricous
/ˈluːbɹɪkəs/
"lubricous" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lubricous” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Slimy to the touch.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lubricous · lubricous · English
lubricous · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | lubricous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈluːbɹɪkəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lubricous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lubricous is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈluːbɹɪkəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Slimy to the touch.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lubricous, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricious. The correct English form is lubricous, spelled L-U-B-R-I-C-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Slimy to the touch.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lubricous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But my Leech—a leech / Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings, / Capaciously expatiative, which make / His little body like a red balloon, / As full of blood as that of hydrogen, / Sucked from men's hearts; […]
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricious.
This word in other languages
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.