strategic
/stɹəˈti.dʒɪk/adjective
strategic is spelled S-T-R-A-T-E-G-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is startegic: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 159 of all searches for the word. Strategic is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to strategy”.
How do you spell strategic?
Strategic is spelled S-T-R-A-T-E-G-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 158 of the searches for strategic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does strategic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to strategy.
- 2
Of or relating to military operations that are more large-scale or long-range than local or tactical ones.
a strategic nuclear weapon
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce strategic?
- /stɹəˈti.dʒɪk/
- /ˈsʈræː.ʈe.dʒɪk/
Strategic has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-strategic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of strategic
- more strategic comparative
- most strategic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is strategic?
Strategic appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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).
Strategic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to strategy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | stratégique |
| German | strategisch |
| Portuguese | estratégico |
| Spanish | estratégico |
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 strategic come from?
From Ancient Greek στρατηγικός (stratēgikós, “of or for a general", also "a treatise on strategy”), from στρατηγός (stratēgós, “the leader or commander of an army, a general”), from στρατός (stratós, “army”) + ἄγω (ágō, “I lead, I conduct”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).