feculent
/ˈfɛkjʊlənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Dirty with faeces or other impurities
Example Sentences
- "At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon."
Etymology
From Middle French feculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈfɛkjʊlənt/
Inflected Forms
more feculent (comparative)
most feculent (superlative)
faeculent (alternative)
fæculent (alternative, archaic)