exploitative
/ɛkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/adjective
exploitative is spelled E-X-P-L-O-I-T-A-T-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is exploititive: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Exploitative is an adjective meaning “In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something”.
How many letters and syllables are in exploitative?
| Letters | 12: E-X-P-L-O-I-T-A-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,912th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, exploititive, 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 exploitative?
Exploitative is spelled E-X-P-L-O-I-T-A-T-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 31 of the searches for exploitative 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 exploitative?
Exploitative appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th 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 exploitative?
- /ɪkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/
- /ɪksplɔɪˈteɪtɪv/
- US /ɛkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/
Exploitative 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-exploitative.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of exploitative
- more exploitative comparative
- most exploitative superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exploitative mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something
We are protesting the company's exploitative policies.
- 2
Of or relating to exploitation.
- 3
Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.
This competition may be intra- or interspecific and may take the form of exploitative or interference competition. In exploitative competition, the consumption of a prey item by one individual removes it from possible consumption by another
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does exploitative come from?
From exploit + -ative. Compare exploitive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).