political
po·lit·i·cal/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/adjective, noun
political is spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L, 4 syllables: po·lit·i·cal. The wrong spelling people search most is poltical: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 86 of all searches for the word. Political is an adjective meaning “Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing”.
How many letters and syllables are in political?
| Letters | 9: P-O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: po·lit·i·cal |
| In writing | 195 times per million words; the 516th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, poltical, about 40 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 political?
Political is spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 58 of the searches for political 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 political?
Political appears 195 times per million words in written English, the 516th 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 political?
- UK /pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/
- US /pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/
- US [pəˈlɪɾ.ɪ.kəl]
Political has 4 syllables, split po·lit·i·cal in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-political.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with political?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as political from its last stressed vowel (/ɪtɪkəl/):
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 political
- more political comparative
- most political superlative
- politicals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does political mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
Political principles are rarely absolute, as political logic holds an imperfect result by compromise is better than a theoretically perfect abstention from the political process in the opposition.
- 2
Concerning a polity or its administrative components.
Good political staff is hard to find, they may neither be ambitious and corrupted by power nor tempted by private sector careers.
- 3
derogatoryInappropriately motivated by political calculation, as it pertains to elections, power dynamics, ideologies, etc.
The media alleged that the Federal Reserve chairman’s decision to cut rates before the election was political.
- 4
Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power, standing, influence or conflict.
- 5
Interested in politics.
noun
- 1
A political agent or officer.
- 2
A publication focusing on politics.
- 3
A political prisoner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate political?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of political: polit..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Political in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense concerning or relating to politics:
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 political come from?
From politic + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).