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cordial

cor·dial/ˈkɔɹ.di.əl/adjective, noun

cordial is spelled C-O-R-D-I-A-L, 2 syllables: cor·dial. The wrong spelling people search most is coridal: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 154 of all searches for the word. Cordial is an adjective meaning “Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate”.

How many letters and syllables are in cordial?

Letters7: C-O-R-D-I-A-L
Syllables2: cor·dial
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, coridal, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell cordial?

Cordial is spelled C-O-R-D-I-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 153 of the searches for cordial in either form.

cordialthe right spelling4,570 searches a month
coridald and i swapped30 searches a month

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 cordial?

Cordial 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 cordial?

  • UK /ˈkɔː.di.əl/
  • UK /ˈkɔː.dʒəl/
  • US /ˈkɔɹ.di.əl/

Cordial has 2 syllables, split cor·dial in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-cordial.ogg, EN-AU_ck1_cordial.ogg, En-au-cordial.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with cordial?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cordial from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹdiəl/):

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 cordial

  • more cordial comparative
  • most cordial superlative
  • cordials plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cordial mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.

    I have a cordial dislike for arachnids.

  2. 2

    Radiating warmth and friendliness; genial.

  3. 3

    rareTending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.

  4. 4

    obsoleteProceeding from the heart.

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaUKA concentrated non-carbonated soft drink which is diluted with water before drinking.

  2. 2

    AustraliaUKAn individual serving of such a diluted drink.

  3. 3

    A pleasant-tasting medicine.

  4. 4

    A liqueur prepared using the infusion process.

  5. 5

    A candy (or bonbon) usually made of milk chocolate, filled with small fruits (often maraschino cherries) and syrup or fondant.

  6. 6

    Anything that revives or comforts, a stimulant.

  7. 7

    soda, fizzy drink

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Cordial in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germanherzlich (hearty), Sirup (concentrated drink), Likör (liqueur)
Portuguesecordial (hearty), concentrado (concentrated drink), licor (liqueur)
Spanishcordial (hearty)
Frenchsirop (concentrated drink)

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 cordial come from?

Inherited from Middle English cordial, from Old French cordial, from Medieval Latin cordiālis (“of the heart”), from cor (“heart”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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