Spacial or spatial?
spacial is an adjective meaning “Alternative spelling of spatial”; spatial is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to (the dimension of) space”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) spatial is about 49 times as common as spacial.
What is the difference between spacial and spatial?
| spacial | spatial | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | adjective |
| Meaning | Alternative spelling of spatial | Pertaining to (the dimension of) space Pertaining to (outer) space |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/ /ˈspæɪ.ʃəl/ |
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words | 5.8 times per million words |
Sources: spacial and spatial in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of spacial and spatial
spacial
- 1
Alternative spelling of spatial
spatial
- 1
Pertaining to (the dimension of) space
- 2
Pertaining to (outer) space
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, spacial or spatial?
spacial appears about once in every 9 million words; spatial 5.8 times per million words.
spacial about once in every 9 million wordsspatial 5.8 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search spacial vs spatial?
“spacial vs spatial” is searched about 1,900 times a month on Google and 70 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“spatial vs spacial”, “spacial or spatial”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.