environmental
/ənˌvaɪ.ɚnˈmɛn.təl/adjective, noun
environmental is spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is enviromental: about 690 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Environmental is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to the environment”.
How many letters and syllables are in environmental?
| Letters | 13: E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 50 times per million words; the 2,041st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, enviromental, about 690 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell environmental?
Environmental is spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T-A-L. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for environmental 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 environmental?
Environmental appears 50 times per million words in written English, the 2,041st 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 environmental?
- UK /ɪnˌvaɪ.ɹə(n)ˈmɛn.təl/
- US /ənˌvaɪ.ɚnˈmɛn.təl/
Environmental has 5 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-environmental.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-environmental2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with environmental?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as environmental from its last stressed vowel (/ɛntəl/):
- fundamental
- dental
- parental
- monumental
- supplemental
- ornamental
- departmental
- intercontinental
- judgemental
- consonantal
- labiodental
- tempermental
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of environmental
- environmentals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does environmental mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to the environment.
- 2
Environmentally friendly.
noun
- 1
Any factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to hold equipment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate environmental?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of environmental: Envtl..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Environmental in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to the environment:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | environnemental |
| German | Umwelt- |
| Portuguese | ambiental |
| Spanish | ambiental |
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 environmental come from?
From environment + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).