corporate
cor·por·ate/ˈkoɹ.pə.ɹət/adjective, noun
corporate is spelled C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-E, 3 syllables: cor·por·ate. The wrong spelling people search most is coporate: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 59 of all searches for the word. Corporate is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to an institution; institutional”.
How many letters and syllables are in corporate?
| Letters | 9: C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: cor·por·ate |
| In writing | 44 times per million words; the 2,290th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, coporate, about 110 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 corporate?
Corporate is spelled C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for corporate 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 corporate?
Corporate appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th 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 corporate?
- UK /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
- UK /ˈkɔː.pɹət/
- US /ˈkoɹ.pə.ɹət/
As a verb (“To incorporate”): /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/, /ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.eɪt/.
Corporate has 3 syllables, split cor·por·ate in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-corporate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of corporate
- more corporate comparative
- most corporate superlative
- corporates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- corporating participle, present
- corporated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does corporate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to an institution; institutional.
The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.
- 2
Formed into a institution; incorporated.
- 3
Unified into one body; collective.
the corporate authorship of the working group
- 4
colloquialSoulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from an institution.
It's not that their interior decorating is horrible; it's just that, well, it's so corporate.
noun
- 1
A bond issued by an institution.
- 2
A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
- 3
An institution that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.
- 4
An institution or group.
- 5
informalThe higher managerial echelons of an institution.
it came down from corporate
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo incorporate.
- 2
obsoleteTo become incorporated.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Corporate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | corporatif |
| German | Firmen-, Unternehmens-, Betriebs- , eingegliedert, AG, Aktiengesellshaft |
| Portuguese | corporativo |
| Spanish | corporativo , incorporado |
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 corporate come from?
The adjective is first attested in 1429, the noun in 1849; from Middle English corporat(e) (“(if a true adjective) corporeal, physical, embodied; (participle/participial adjective) incorporated; corporated, constituted as a legal corporation”, used as the past participle of corporaten), from Latin corporātus, perfect passive participle of corporō (“to make into a body”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from corpus (“body”, oblique stem in corp-) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).