conical
/ˈkɑ.nɪ.kəl/adjective, noun
conical is spelled C-O-N-I-C-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is concial: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Conical is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to a cone or cones”.
How many letters and syllables are in conical?
| Letters | 7: C-O-N-I-C-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, concial, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell conical?
Conical is spelled C-O-N-I-C-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 45 of the searches for conical 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 conical?
Conical appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 conical?
- UK /ˈkɒn.ɪ.kəl/
- British /ˈkɔn.ɪ.kəl/
- US /ˈkɑ.nɪ.kəl/
Conical 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)-Vealhurl-conic.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-conical.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with conical?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as conical from its last stressed vowel (/ɑnɪkəl/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: laconic.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of conical
- more conical comparative
- most conical superlative
- conicals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does conical mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to a cone or cones.
- 2
Shaped like a cone.
- 3
Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced lines radiating out from the apex and parallels of latitude are mapped to circular arcs centred on the apex.
noun
- 1
A cone-shaped bullet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Conical in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | conique |
| German | konisch , kegelförmig |
| Portuguese | cónico, cônico |
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 conical come from?
From conic + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).