musical
mu·si·cal/ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/adjective, noun
musical is spelled M-U-S-I-C-A-L, 3 syllables: mu·si·cal. The wrong spelling people search most is muscial: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 97 of all searches for the word. Musical is an adjective meaning “Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation”.
How many letters and syllables are in musical?
| Letters | 7: M-U-S-I-C-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: mu·si·cal |
| In writing | 32 times per million words; the 2,941st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, muscial, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell musical?
Musical is spelled M-U-S-I-C-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 97 of the searches for musical 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 musical?
Musical appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,941st 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 musical?
- /ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/
Musical has 3 syllables, split mu·si·cal in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-musical.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of musical
- more musical comparative
- most musical superlative
- musicals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does musical mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
musical proportion
- 2
Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
She had a musical voice.
- 3
Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
having a musical ear
- 4
Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
noun
- 1
A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
- 2
A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Musical in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | musical , musicien, musicienne , comédie musicale |
| German | musikalisch, Musik- , Musical |
| Portuguese | musical , musicista , melodioso, melódico |
| Spanish | musical |
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 musical come from?
From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).