ocular
/ˈɑ.kjə.lɚ/adjective, noun
ocular is spelled O-C-U-L-A-R. The wrong spelling people search most is occular: about 200 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Ocular is an adjective meaning “Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight”.
How many letters and syllables are in ocular?
| Letters | 6: O-C-U-L-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,168th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, occular, about 200 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 ocular?
Ocular is spelled O-C-U-L-A-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for ocular 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 ocular?
Ocular appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th 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 ocular?
- UK /ˈɒk.jə.lə/
- UK /ˈɒk.jʊ.lə/
- US /ˈɑ.kjə.lɚ/
Ocular has 3 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)-Vininn126-ocular.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ocular?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as ocular from its last stressed vowel (/ɑkjələɹ/):
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 ocular
- more ocular comparative
- most ocular superlative
- oculars plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ocular mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight
The medication may have adverse ocular side effects.
- 2
Resembling the eye.
ocular markings on the wings of a butterfly
- 3
Seen by, or seeing with, the eye; visual.
noun
- 1
The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument, i.e., the optical element closest to the eye.
- 2
Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ocular in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or relating to the eye:
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 ocular come from?
Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).