voluptuary
/vəˈlʌptʃʊəɹi/
"voluptuary" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“voluptuary” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist.
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Index EN-voluptuary · voluptuary · English
voluptuary · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voluptuary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vəˈlʌptʃʊəɹi/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “voluptuary” in English
Rare enough to double-check
voluptuary is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /vəˈlʌptʃʊəɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist.".
voluptuary doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French voluptuaire, or directly from its etymon Late Latin voluptuārius, from Latin voluptārius (“pleasure-seeker; agreeable, delightful, pleasant; sensual”), from voluptās (“delight, pleasure, satisfaction”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from no… The correct English form is voluptuary, spelled V-O-L-U-P-T-U-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how voluptuary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But Mrs. Cole, in oppoſition to this, aſſured me that the gentlemen I ſhould be preſented to, were, by their rank and taſte of things, infinitely ſuperior to the being touch'd with any glare of dreſs, or ornaments, ſuch as ſilly women rather confound, and overlay, than ſet off their beauty with; that theſe veteran voluptuaries knew better than not to hold…
His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary.
Etymology
From French voluptuaire, or directly from its etymon Late Latin voluptuārius, from Latin voluptārius (“pleasure-seeker; agreeable, delightful, pleasant; sensual”), from voluptās (“delight, pleasure, satisfaction”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). Voluptās is derived from volup (“with pleasure; agreeably, pleasantly, satisfactorily”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being).
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.