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decolonial

adjective

decolonial is spelled D-E-C-O-L-O-N-I-A-L: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, decolonial means “Of or relating to decoloniality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in decolonial?

Letters10: D-E-C-O-L-O-N-I-A-L
In writingabout once in every 29 million words; the 163,711th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is decolonial?

Decolonial appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).

Forms of decolonial

  • more decolonial comparative
  • most decolonial superlative

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

What does decolonial mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to decoloniality.

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

Decolonial in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense relating to decoloniality:

LanguageWords
Germandekolonial

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 decolonial come from?

From de- + colonial.

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

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