attentional
"attentional" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“attentional” is uncommon English (frequency #61,290 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,290
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to attention.
Corpus desk
Index EN-attentional · attentional · English
attentional · rank #61,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,290
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Athabasca
Nearest frequency peer: Athabasca (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “attentional”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Asura
Asura
38,715 corpus weight
- Aswan
Aswan
38,714 corpus weight
- Athabasca
Athabasca
38,713 corpus weight
- attentional
attentional
38,711 corpus weight
- barging
barging
38,707 corpus weight
- Baumgartner
Baumgartner
38,706 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “attentional” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attentional |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “attentional” in English
Rare enough to double-check
attentional is uncommon English at frequency #61,290 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to attention.".
attentional doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From attention + -al. The correct English form is attentional, spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to attention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attentional appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The case for a shutdown is this: A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to.
Etymology
From attention + -al.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).