expeditionary
adjective, noun
expeditionary is spelled E-X-P-E-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is expeditonary: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Expeditionary is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to an expedition”.
How many letters and syllables are in expeditionary?
| Letters | 13: E-X-P-E-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,636th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, expeditonary, about 10 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 expeditionary?
Expeditionary is spelled E-X-P-E-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 29 of the searches for expeditionary 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 expeditionary?
Expeditionary appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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 expeditionary?
- US
Expeditionary has 6 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)-Flame,_not_lame-expeditionary.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of expeditionary
- expeditionaries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does expeditionary mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to an expedition.
- 2
Intended for military operations abroad.
an expeditionary force
noun
- 1
One who goes on expeditions, especially one who is a member of an expeditionary military force.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does expeditionary come from?
From expedition + -ary.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).