collaborative
co·llab·o·ra·tive/kəˈlæb.ə.ɹə.tɪv/adjective, noun
collaborative is spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-V-E, 5 syllables: co·llab·o·ra·tive. The wrong spelling people search most is collaberative: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 32 of all searches for the word. Collaborative is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or done by collaboration”.
How many letters and syllables are in collaborative?
| Letters | 13: C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: co·llab·o·ra·tive |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, collaberative, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 collaborative?
Collaborative is spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 32 of the searches for collaborative 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 collaborative?
Collaborative appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 collaborative?
- /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹə.tɪv/
- /kəˈlæb.ɹə.tɪv/
Collaborative has 5 syllables, split co·llab·o·ra·tive in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-collaborative.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-collaborative.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of collaborative
- more collaborative comparative
- most collaborative superlative
- collaboratives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does collaborative mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, relating to, or done by collaboration.
No need to thank me - it was a collaborative effort.
noun
- 1
An organized group of people or entities who collaborate towards a particular goal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Collaborative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of, relating to, or done by collaboration:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | collaboratif |
| Portuguese | colaborativo |
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 collaborative come from?
From collaborate + -ive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).