perusal
/pəˈɹuːzl̩/noun
perusal is spelled P-E-R-U-S-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is persual: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Perusal is a noun meaning “Studying something carefully; a careful study”. The plural of perusal is perusals.
How many letters and syllables are in perusal?
| Letters | 7: P-E-R-U-S-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 65,114th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, persual, about 210 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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 perusal?
Perusal is spelled P-E-R-U-S-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for perusal 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 perusal?
Perusal appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,114th 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 perusal?
- /pəˈɹuːzl̩/
Perusal 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)-Vealhurl-perusal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with perusal?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as perusal.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: serpula.
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 perusal
- perusals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does perusal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Studying something carefully; a careful study.
Please find attached the relevant documents for your perusal.
- 2
Giving something a cursory scan; a cursory scan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Perusal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense studying something carefully:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | escrutinio, lectura atenta, lectura cuidadosa |
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 perusal come from?
From peruse + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).