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particular

par·tic·u·larUK /pəˈtɪk.jʊ.lə/adjective, noun

particular is spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-R, 4 syllables: par·tic·u·lar. The wrong spelling people search most is perticular: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Particular is an adjective meaning “Specific; discrete; concrete”.

How many letters and syllables are in particular?

Letters10: P-A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-R
Syllables4: par·tic·u·lar
In writing100 times per million words; the 1,076th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched3; the most searched, perticular, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell particular?

Particular is spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-R. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for particular in either form.

particularthe right spelling1,510 searches a month
perticulare in place of a70 searches a month
paticulara missing r50 searches a month
particualrl and a swapped10 searches a month

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 particular?

Particular appears 100 times per million words in written English, the 1,076th 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 particular?

  • UK /pəˈtɪk.jʊ.lə/
  • /pəˈtɪk.jə.lə/
  • /pɚˈtɪk.jə.lɚ/

Particular has 4 syllables, split par·tic·u·lar in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-particular.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Ajshul-particular.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with particular?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as particular from its last stressed vowel (/ɪkjʊlə/, British pronunciation):

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 particular

  • more particular comparative
  • most particular superlative
  • non-comparable
  • particulars plural

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

What does particular mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoletePertaining only to a part of something; partial.

  2. 2

    Specific; discrete; concrete.

    I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.

  3. 3

    Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.

    I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.

  4. 4

    obsoleteKnown only to an individual person or group; confidential.

  5. 5

    Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).

    My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.

  6. 6

    Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.

    He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.

  7. 7

    Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.

    a full and particular account of an accident

  8. 8

    Containing a part only; limited.

    a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder

noun

  1. 1

    A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA person's own individual case.

  3. 3

    A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)

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

Particular in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germanspeziell, bestimmt, spezifisch, genau, einzeln (specific; discrete; concrete), besonders (specialised; characteristic of a specific…)
Portugueseespecífico, particular (specific; discrete; concrete), próprio (specialised; characteristic of a specific…), especial (distinguished in some way; special), minucioso (concerned with, or attentive to, details…)
Spanishparticular (specific; discrete; concrete)
Frenchparticulier (logic: forming a part of a genus)

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 particular come from?

From Middle English particuler, from Anglo-Norman particuler, Middle French particuler, particulier, from Late Latin particularis (“partial; separate, individual”), from Latin particula (“(small) part”). Equivalent to particle + -ar. Compare particle.

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

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