dialectal
di·a·lec·tal/ˌdaɪəˈlɛktəl/adjective
dialectal is spelled D-I-A-L-E-C-T-A-L, 4 syllables: di·a·lec·tal. The wrong spelling people search most is dialectual: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Dialectal is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to a dialect”.
How many letters and syllables are in dialectal?
| Letters | 9: D-I-A-L-E-C-T-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: di·a·lec·tal |
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 87,317th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dialectual, about 10 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 dialectal?
Dialectal is spelled D-I-A-L-E-C-T-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for dialectal 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 dialectal?
Dialectal appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th 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 dialectal?
- /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktəl/
Dialectal has 4 syllables, split di·a·lec·tal in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-dialectal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dialectal
- more dialectal comparative
- most dialectal superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dialectal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to a dialect.
- 2
Peculiar to a (nonstandard) variety or lect.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate dialectal?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of dialectal: dial..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dialectal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to a dialect:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dialectal |
| German | mundartlich, dialektal, dialektisch |
| Portuguese | dialetal |
| Spanish | dialectal |
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.