metallurgical
/ˌmɛtəˈlɜː(ɹ)dʒɪkəl/adjective
metallurgical is spelled M-E-T-A-L-L-U-R-G-I-C-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is metalurgical: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Metallurgical is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to metallurgy, the study of metals and their properties”.
How many letters and syllables are in metallurgical?
| Letters | 13: M-E-T-A-L-L-U-R-G-I-C-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (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, metalurgical, about 20 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 metallurgical?
Metallurgical is spelled M-E-T-A-L-L-U-R-G-I-C-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for metallurgical 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 metallurgical?
Metallurgical 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 metallurgical?
- /ˌmɛtəˈlɜː(ɹ)dʒɪkəl/
Metallurgical 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-metallurgical.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of metallurgical
- more metallurgical comparative
- most metallurgical superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does metallurgical mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to metallurgy, the study of metals and their properties.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Metallurgical in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or relating to metallurgy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | métallurgique |
| German | metallurgisch |
| Portuguese | metalúrgico |
| Spanish | metalúrgico |
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 metallurgical come from?
From metallurgy + -ical.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).