parliamentary
/ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/adjective, noun
parliamentary is spelled P-A-R-L-I-A-M-E-N-T-A-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is parlimentary: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Parliamentary is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament”.
How many letters and syllables are in parliamentary?
| Letters | 13: P-A-R-L-I-A-M-E-N-T-A-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,309th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, parlimentary, about 60 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 parliamentary?
Parliamentary is spelled P-A-R-L-I-A-M-E-N-T-A-R-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for parliamentary 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 parliamentary?
Parliamentary appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th 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 parliamentary?
- UK /ˌpɑːləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
- US /ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
- Australia /ˌpɐːləˈment(ə)ɹi/
Parliamentary 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-parliamentary.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with parliamentary?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as parliamentary from its last stressed vowel (/ɛntɹi/):
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 parliamentary
- parliamentaries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does parliamentary mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.
Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.
- 2
Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.
The UK is a parliamentary democracy.
- 3
UKOf a class of train which, by an act of parliament, ran both ways along a line, at least once each day, at the rate of one penny per mile.
noun
- 1
UKA parliamentary train.
adjective
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of parliamentary, typically in reference to a specific parliament, usually that of England or the United Kingdom.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Parliamentary in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | parlementaire |
| German | parlamentarisch |
| Portuguese | parlamentar |
| Spanish | parlamentario |
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.