exclusive
ex·clu·sive/ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/adjective, noun
exclusive is spelled E-X-C-L-U-S-I-V-E, 3 syllables: ex·clu·sive. The wrong spelling people search most is exlusive: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 149 of all searches for the word. Exclusive is an adjective meaning “Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions”.
How many letters and syllables are in exclusive?
| Letters | 9: E-X-C-L-U-S-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ex·clu·sive |
| In writing | 36 times per million words; the 2,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, exlusive, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell exclusive?
Exclusive is spelled E-X-C-L-U-S-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 150 of the searches for exclusive 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 exclusive?
Exclusive appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th 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 exclusive?
- US /ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/
- US /ɪkˈsklu.zɪv/
Exclusive has 3 syllables, split ex·clu·sive in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-exclusive.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-exclusive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with exclusive?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as exclusive from its last stressed vowel (/usɪv/):
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 exclusive
- more exclusive comparative
- most exclusive superlative
- exclusives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exclusive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- 2
Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only.
- 3
A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
- 4
Exclusionary.
- 5
Whole, undivided, entire.
The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
- 6
Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".
- 7
Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
They decided to no longer be exclusive.
noun
- 1
Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.
- 2
A member of a group who excludes others from their society.
- 3
A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate exclusive?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of exclusive: excl, excl..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Exclusive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | exclusif |
| German | ausschließlich , exklusiv |
| Portuguese | exclusivo |
| Spanish | exclusivo , primicia, emprima, tubazo, chiva |
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 exclusive come from?
From Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).