rutilant
/ˈɹuːtɪl(ə)nt/
"rutilant" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rutilant” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Shining or glowing with a red colour or light.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rutilant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɹuːtɪl(ə)nt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rutilant” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rutilant is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈɹuːtɪl(ə)nt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Shining or glowing with a red colour or light.".
rutilant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Middle English rutilaunt (“shining with a gold or red colour”), from rutilāns (“reddening”), an adjective use of the present participle of rutilō (“to redden”) (from rutilus (“(yellowish) red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)). The Eng… The correct English form is rutilant, spelled R-U-T-I-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Shining or glowing with a red colour or light.
Etymology
From Late Middle English rutilaunt (“shining with a gold or red colour”), from rutilāns (“reddening”), an adjective use of the present participle of rutilō (“to redden”) (from rutilus (“(yellowish) red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)). The English word is cognate with Italian rutilante, Portuguese rutilante, Spanish rutilante.
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.
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Using “rutilant”
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- The one correct English spelling is R-U-T-I-L-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.