interrogative
/ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.tɪv/adjective, noun
interrogative is spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-A-T-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is interogative: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Interrogative is an adjective meaning “Asking or denoting a question”.
How many letters and syllables are in interrogative?
| Letters | 13: I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-A-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 62,894th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, interogative, about 80 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 interrogative?
Interrogative is spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-A-T-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for interrogative 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 interrogative?
Interrogative appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,894th 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 interrogative?
- UK /ˌɪn.təˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/
- US /ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.tɪv/
- US [ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.ɾɪv]
Interrogative has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-gb-interrogative.ogg, En-us-interrogative.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with interrogative?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as interrogative from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɡətɪv/):
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 interrogative
- more interrogative comparative
- most interrogative superlative
- interrogatives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does interrogative mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Asking or denoting a question.
an interrogative phrase
- 2
Pertaining to inquiry; questioning
He took on an interrogative tone of voice.
noun
- 1
A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc.
- 2
archaicSynonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
- 3
rareA question; an interrogation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Interrogative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense asking or denoting a question:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | interrogatif |
| German | Frage-, interrogativ, fragend |
| Portuguese | interrogativo |
| Spanish | interrogativo |
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 interrogative come from?
From Late Latin interrogātīvus, equivalent to interrogate + -ive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).