pulchritude
/pʌlkrə.t(j)uːd/
"pulchritude" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pulchritude” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Physical beauty.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pulchritude · pulchritude · English
pulchritude · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pulchritude |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pʌlkrə.t(j)uːd/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pulchritude” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pulchritude is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /pʌlkrə.t(j)uːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Physical beauty.".
pulchritude has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritūdō, from pulcher (“beautiful”). The correct English form is pulchritude, spelled P-U-L-C-H-R-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Physical beauty.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pulchritude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4 https://web.archive.org/web/20061020074600/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch4-8.html One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss…
Do you know why a woman of such pulchritude is married to me? 'Cause I make a comfortable living.
Etymology
From Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritūdō, from pulcher (“beautiful”).
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.