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multinational

adjective, noun

multinational is spelled M-U-L-T-I-N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L: 13 letters and 5 syllables. It appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, multinational means “Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in multinational?

Letters13: M-U-L-T-I-N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is multinational?

Multinational appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th 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 multinational?

  • General-American

Multinational 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: En-us-multinational.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of multinational

  • multinationals plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does multinational mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).

  2. 2

    Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).

noun

  1. 1

    A multinational company.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Multinational in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmultinational (of, or involving more than two countries), multinationale (multinational company)
Germanmultinational (of, or involving more than two countries), multinationales Unternehmen (multinational company)
Portuguesemultinacional (of, or involving more than two countries)
Spanishmultinacional (of, or involving more than two countries)

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 multinational come from?

From multi- + national.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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