predominant
/pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/adjective, noun
predominant is spelled P-R-E-D-O-M-I-N-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is predominent: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 41 of all searches for the word. Predominant is an adjective meaning “Common or widespread; prevalent”.
How many letters and syllables are in predominant?
| Letters | 11: P-R-E-D-O-M-I-N-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, predominent, 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 predominant?
Predominant is spelled P-R-E-D-O-M-I-N-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 42 of the searches for predominant 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 predominant?
Predominant appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st 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 predominant?
- /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/
Predominant 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-predominant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of predominant
- more predominant comparative
- most predominant superlative
- predominants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does predominant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Common or widespread; prevalent.
- 2
Significant or important; dominant.
noun
- 1
A subdominant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Predominant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense common or widespread; prevalent:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prédominant |
| Portuguese | predominante |
| Spanish | predominante |
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 predominant come from?
From Middle French prédominant, ultimately from Medieval Latin praedominans. By surface analysis, pre- + dominant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).