# luscious

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈlʌʃəs/ · frequency rank #29,358

## Definitions
1. Sweet and pleasant; delicious.
2. Sexually appealing; seductive.
3. Obscene.

## Etymology
From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) + -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the same sense: "How lush and lusty the grass looks" (The Tempest ii. I.52).
An alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious.

## Easily confused with
- **lustrous** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/luscious-vs-lustrous)
- **Lucius** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lucius-vs-luscious)

## Common misspellings (11)
`lluscious`, `lsucious`, `lucsious`, `lusccious`, `lusciosu`, `lusciouss`, `lusciuos`, `luscoius`, `lusicous`, `lusscious`, `ulscious`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/luscious