politician
/ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/noun
politician is spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-C-I-A-N. The wrong spelling people search most is politican: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Politician is a noun meaning “One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official”. The plural of politician is politicians.
How many letters and syllables are in politician?
| Letters | 10: P-O-L-I-T-I-C-I-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, politican, 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 politician?
Politician is spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-C-I-A-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for politician 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 politician?
Politician appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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 politician?
- UK /ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/
- US /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/
- Canada /ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/
Politician 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: En-us-politician.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with politician?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as politician from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):
- position
- competition
- opposition
- permission
- composition
- acquisition
- coalition
- physician
- admission
- nutrition
- expedition
- ambition
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 politician
- politicians plural
- polititian
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does politician mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
Politicians should serve the country's interest.
- 2
Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.
Unlike the other candidates, I'm not a politician.
- 3
A politically active or interested person.
Only real politicians are interested in this issue.
- 4
A sly or ingratiating person.
There is a politician in every office.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Politician in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one engaged in politics:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | politique, politicien, politicienne, homme politique, femme politique |
| German | Politiker, Politikerin |
| Portuguese | político, política |
| Spanish | político, política, politicastro |
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.