verrucous
adjective
verrucous is an adjective meaning “wart-like, resembling a verruca; verrucose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-R-U-C-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does verrucous mean?
adjective
- 1
wart-like, resembling a verruca; verrucose
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of verrucous
- more verrucous comparative
- most verrucous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is verrucous?
Verrucous appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 verrucous come from?
Borrowed from Late Latin verrūcōsus, from Latin verrūca (“wart”). By surface analysis, verruca + -ous. Doublet of verrucose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).