resinous
"resinous" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“resinous” is uncommon English (frequency #79,009 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,009
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to resin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-resinous · resinous · English
resinous · rank #79,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,009
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reproached
Nearest frequency peer: reproached (-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 “resinous”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Renaldo
Renaldo
20,996 corpus weight
- renate
renate
20,995 corpus weight
- reproached
reproached
20,994 corpus weight
- resinous
resinous
20,992 corpus weight
- rethought
rethought
20,990 corpus weight
- revie
revie
20,989 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “resinous” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resinous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “resinous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
resinous is uncommon English at frequency #79,009 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
resinous has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French résineux; cf. Latin resinosus. By surface analysis, resin + -ous. The correct English form is resinous, spelled R-E-S-I-N-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to resin.
- 2Negative (of electric charge).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how resinous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French résineux; cf. Latin resinosus. By surface analysis, resin + -ous.
Antonyms
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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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).