longitudinal
/ˌlɔn.dʒɪˈtu.dɪ.nəl/adjective, noun
longitudinal is spelled L-O-N-G-I-T-U-D-I-N-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is longtitudinal: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 189 of all searches for the word. Longitudinal is an adjective meaning “Running across a set direction of an object”.
How many letters and syllables are in longitudinal?
| Letters | 12: L-O-N-G-I-T-U-D-I-N-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words; the 17,813th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, longtitudinal, about 10 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 longitudinal?
Longitudinal is spelled L-O-N-G-I-T-U-D-I-N-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 190 of the searches for longitudinal 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 longitudinal?
Longitudinal appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 17,813th 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 longitudinal?
- UK /ˌlɒŋ.ɡɪˈtjuː.dɪ.nəl/
- British /ˌlɔŋ.ɡɪˈtʃʉw.dɪ.nəl/
- US /ˌlɔn.dʒɪˈtu.dɪ.nəl/
Longitudinal 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-longitudinal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with longitudinal?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as longitudinal from its last stressed vowel (/udɪnəl/):
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 longitudinal
- longitudinals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does longitudinal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Running across a set direction of an object.
The motion about the longitudinal axis of an airplane is called roll.
- 2
Running in the direction of the long axis of a body.
- 3
Relating to the geographical longitude.
The longitudinal position of a ship refers to its angular distance east or west from the prime meridian.
- 4
Of a study, sampling data over time rather than merely once.
longitudinal studies
noun
- 1
Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.
- 2
A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate longitudinal?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of longitudinal: longl..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Longitudinal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | longitudinal |
| German | längenmäßig, longitudinal , längslaufend , Längsschnitt |
| Spanish | longitudinal |
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 longitudinal come from?
From Latin longitūdin- + -al, from oblique stem of Latin longitūdō, from longus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, longitude + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).