multitudinous
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "multitudinous", 13-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "multitudinous" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "multitudinous" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
multitudinous is anEnglishadj. It means: Existing in multitudes or great numbers; very numerous; innumerable. Pronounced /ˌmʌltɪˈtjuːdɪnəs/.
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|---|---|
| Headword | multitudinous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˌmʌltɪˈtjuːdɪnəs/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for multitudinous is 13 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌmʌltɪˈtjuːdɪnəs/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for multitudinous in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin multitūdin- (the oblique stem of multitūdō (“great number (of people), multitude”)) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)). Multitūdō is d… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is multitudinous, spelled M-U-L-T-I-T-U-D-I-N-O-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Existing in multitudes or great numbers; very numerous; innumerable.
- 2Comprising a large number of features or parts; manifold, multiple, myriad; also, having a large number of forms.
- 3Comprising a large number of features or parts; manifold, multiple, myriad; also, having a large number of forms.
- 4Of a body of water, the sea, etc.: huge, vast; also, having innumerable ripples.
- 5Followed by with: crowded with many people or things.
- 6Of or relating to the multitude (“common people; masses”).
- 7Very fruitful or productive; prolific.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin multitūdin- (the oblique stem of multitūdō (“great number (of people), multitude”)) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)). Multitūdō is derived from multus (“many; much”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to be late; to worry”)) + -tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, multitude + -in- (interfix used before Latinate suffixes appended to nouns ending with -itude or -tude) + -ous.
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