electrical
/ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/adjective, noun
electrical is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is electrial: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 185 of all searches for the word. Electrical is an adjective meaning “Related to electricity (or electronics)”.
How many letters and syllables are in electrical?
| Letters | 10: E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, electrial, about 60 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 electrical?
Electrical is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 186 of the searches for electrical 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 electrical?
Electrical appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th 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 electrical?
- /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/
Electrical has 4 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: En-us-electrical.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of electrical
- more electrical comparative
- most electrical superlative
- electricals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does electrical mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Related to electricity (or electronics)
electrical engineering for the design of electrical appliances
noun
- 1
An electrical engineer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate electrical?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of electrical: Elec..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does electrical come from?
From electric + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).