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Venusian

/vəˈnuʒən/noun, adjective

Venusian is a noun meaning “An inhabitant of the planet Venus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-N-U-S-I-A-N and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Venusian is Venusians.

What does Venusian mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An inhabitant of the planet Venus.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to the planet Venus.

    the Venusian landscape

  2. 2

    Of or relating to inhabitants of Venus.

    a Venusian invasion

  3. 3

    Pertaining to the Roman goddess Venus.

    Near-synonym: Aphrodisian

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Venusian?

  • UK /vɪˈnjuː.ziən/
  • UK /vɪˈnjuː.si.ən/
  • US /vəˈnuʒən/

Venusian has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Venusian.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Venusian

  • Venusians plural
  • Venutian

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Venusian?

Venusian appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th 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).

Venusian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
FrenchVénusien, Vénusienne (inhabitant of Venus), vénusien (of Venus)
GermanVenusianer, Venusianerin, Venusbewohner, Venusbewohnerin (inhabitant of Venus), venerisch, Venus- (of Venus)
Portuguesevenusiano (inhabitant of Venus)
Spanishvenusiano (inhabitant of Venus)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Venusian come from?

From Venus + -ian.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).