administrative
/ədˈmɪn.əˌstɹeɪ.tɪv/adjective
administrative is spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is adminstrative: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Administrative is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to administering or administration”.
How many letters and syllables are in administrative?
| Letters | 14: A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,288th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, adminstrative, about 130 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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).
How do you spell administrative?
Administrative is spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for administrative 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.
How common is administrative?
Administrative appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,288th 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).
How do you pronounce administrative?
- UK /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹə.tɪv/
- UK [ədˈmɪn.ɪ.st̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷə.tʰɪv]
- US /ədˈmɪn.əˌstɹeɪ.tɪv/
Administrative has 5 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: En-us-administrative.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of administrative
- more administrative comparative
- most administrative superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does administrative mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to administering or administration.
administrative costs
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate administrative?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of administrative: Admin., adm., admin..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Administrative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or relating to administering or administration:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | administratif |
| German | administrativ |
| Portuguese | administrativo |
| Spanish | administrativo |
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 administrative come from?
From administrate + -ive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).