consecutive
/kənˈsɛkjʊtɪv/adjective, noun
consecutive is spelled C-O-N-S-E-C-U-T-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is consequtive: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 42 of all searches for the word. Consecutive is an adjective meaning “Following, in succession, without interruption”.
How many letters and syllables are in consecutive?
| Letters | 11: C-O-N-S-E-C-U-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,309th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, consequtive, about 80 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 consecutive?
Consecutive is spelled C-O-N-S-E-C-U-T-I-V-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 29 of the searches for consecutive 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 consecutive?
Consecutive appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th 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 consecutive?
- US /kənˈsɛkjʊtɪv/
Consecutive has 4 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-consecutive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of consecutive
- consecutives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does consecutive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Following, in succession, without interruption.
- 2
Having some logical sequence.
noun
- 1
A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same interval.
- 2
A linguistic form that implies or describes an event that follows temporally from another.
- 3
Consecutive interpretation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Consecutive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | consécutif |
| German | folgend, aufeinanderfolgend, fortlaufend, konsekutiv |
| Portuguese | consecutivo , consequente |
| Spanish | consecutivo |
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 consecutive come from?
From French consécutif, from Medieval Latin cōnsecūtīvus, from Latin cōnsecūtus (“followed up”), from Latin cōnsequor (“to travel”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).