luxuriant
/lʌɡˈzjʊəɹi.ənt/
"luxuriant" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“luxuriant” is uncommon English (frequency #63,061 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,061
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abundant in growth or detail.
Corpus desk
Index EN-luxuriant · luxuriant · English
luxuriant · rank #63,061 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,061
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lusk
Nearest frequency peer: lusk (-2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “luxuriant”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- LPN
LPN
36,946 corpus weight
- Lukashenko
Lukashenko
36,944 corpus weight
- lumping
lumping
36,943 corpus weight
- lusk
lusk
36,942 corpus weight
- luxuriant
luxuriant
36,940 corpus weight
- malarial
malarial
36,935 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “luxuriant” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | luxuriant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /lʌɡˈzjʊəɹi.ənt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “luxuriant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
luxuriant is uncommon English at frequency #63,061 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /lʌɡˈzjʊəɹi.ənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abundant in growth or detail.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for luxuriant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin lūxuriāns, present participle of lūxuriō, itself from lūxuria (“luxury, excess”). Equivalent to luxury + -ant. The correct English form is luxuriant, spelled L-U-X-U-R-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Abundant in growth or detail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how luxuriant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She wore a dress of azure blue velvet, with a deep border of gold; her luxuriant hair was put back from her brow in a style which no face but the most perfect could have borne, and was then gathered in a form like that of an ancient helmet, every plait glittering with diamonds: it was peculiar, but it suited her.
Thus, to find luxuriant growths of seaweeds unaffected by man, one must go to the Channel Islands where pollution has not taken its toll.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lūxuriāns, present participle of lūxuriō, itself from lūxuria (“luxury, excess”). Equivalent to luxury + -ant.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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