crystalline
/ˈkɹɪs.tə.lɪn/adjective
crystalline is spelled C-R-Y-S-T-A-L-L-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is crystaline: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Crystalline is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or composed of crystals”.
How many letters and syllables are in crystalline?
| Letters | 11: C-R-Y-S-T-A-L-L-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, crystaline, about 120 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 crystalline?
Crystalline is spelled C-R-Y-S-T-A-L-L-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for crystalline 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 crystalline?
Crystalline appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Crystalline, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce crystalline?
- /ˈkɹɪs.tə.lɪn/
- /ˈkɹɪs.təˌlaɪn/
- /ˈkɹɪs.təˌliːn/
Crystalline 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-crystalline.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of crystalline
- more crystalline comparative
- most crystalline superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does crystalline mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, relating to, or composed of crystals.
- 2
Having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure.
- 3
Resembling crystal in being clear and transparent
- 4
Pure.
noun
- 1
obsoleteAny crystalline substance.
- 2
obsoleteAniline.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Crystalline in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cristallin |
| German | kristallin, kristallinisch, kristallen, Kristall- , kristallklar |
| Portuguese | cristalino |
| Spanish | cristalino |
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 crystalline come from?
From Middle English cristallyn, cristallyne, from Old French cristallin and its etymon Latin crystallinus, from Ancient Greek κρυστάλλινος (krustállinos), from κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal”) + -ῐνος (-ĭnos, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, crystal + -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).