phenomenal
/fɪˈnɑmɪnəl/adjective
phenomenal is spelled P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is phenomenonal: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 196 of all searches for the word. Phenomenal is an adjective meaning “Very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing”.
How many letters and syllables are in phenomenal?
| Letters | 10: P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, phenomenonal, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell phenomenal?
Phenomenal is spelled P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 198 of the searches for phenomenal 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 phenomenal?
Phenomenal appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 phenomenal?
- UK /fɪˈnɒmɪnəl/
- UK /fə-/
- US /fɪˈnɑmɪnəl/
Phenomenal has 4 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-phenomenal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of phenomenal
- more phenomenal comparative
- most phenomenal superlative
- phænomenal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does phenomenal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
colloquialVery remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing.
phenomenal effort
- 2
Perceptible by the senses through immediate experience.
- 3
Of or pertaining to the appearance of the world, as opposed to the ultimate nature of the world as it is in itself.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Phenomenal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense remarkable:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | phénoménal |
| German | phänomenal |
| Portuguese | fenomenal |
| Spanish | fenomenal |
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.