nauseate
/ˈnɔziˌeɪt/
"nauseate" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nauseate” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To cause nausea in.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nauseate · nauseate · English
nauseate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" 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 | nauseate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈnɔziˌeɪt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nauseate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nauseate is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈnɔziˌeɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for nauseate in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From earlier nauseat, from Latin nauseātus (“nauseated”), perfect past participle of nauseō (“to feel sea sick, nauseate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)), from nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía), from ναῦς (naûs), from Proto… The correct English form is nauseate, spelled N-A-U-S-E-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To cause nausea in.
- 2To disgust.
- 3To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
- 4To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
- 5To be disgusted by (something).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nauseate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.
After another three-quarters of an hour we pick up eleven children, nearly all of them objectionable on the score of smell. The air we breathe over and over begins to be so foul that it nauseates me.
Etymology
From earlier nauseat, from Latin nauseātus (“nauseated”), perfect past participle of nauseō (“to feel sea sick, nauseate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)), from nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía), from ναῦς (naûs), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. By surface analysis, nausea + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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.