tautologous
adjective
tautologous is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to a tautology; tautological” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-U-T-O-L-O-G-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does tautologous mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to a tautology; tautological.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tautologous
- more tautologous comparative
- most tautologous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tautologous?
Tautologous appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does tautologous come from?
From tautology + -ous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).