sorcerous
"sorcerous" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sorcerous” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Similar to, or involving, sorcery.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sorcerous · sorcerous · English
sorcerous · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sorcerous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sorcerous” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sorcerous is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Similar to, or involving, sorcery.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sorcerous, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sorcery + -ous. The correct English form is sorcerous, spelled S-O-R-C-E-R-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Similar to, or involving, sorcery.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sorcerous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Part toy box and part cabinet of curiosities for a young misfit finally finding his tribe, the house has competition only from Black, who always excels in roles that let him play an excitable kid in a grown man’s body, and does so here as the bumbling, sorcerous Uncle Jonathan, forever knocking things over[…]
That record was about the seductive power of “the aesthetics of wealth”—fashion runways, status brands, velvet-rope glamour—with the sorcerous allure of artifice and illusion seemingly left unchallenged.
Etymology
From sorcery + -ous.
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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