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presidential

pres·i·den·tial/pɹɛzɪˈdɛnʃ(ə)l/adjective

presidential is spelled P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L, 4 syllables: pres·i·den·tial. The wrong spelling people search most is presidental: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Presidential is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to a president or presidency”.

How many letters and syllables are in presidential?

Letters12: P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L
Syllables4: pres·i·den·tial
In writing33 times per million words; the 2,888th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched2; the most searched, presidental, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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).

How do you spell presidential?

Presidential is spelled P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for presidential in either form.

presidentialthe right spelling3,230 searches a month
presidentala missing i100 searches a month
presedentiale in place of i30 searches a month

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 presidential?

Presidential appears 33 times per million words in written English, the 2,888th 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 presidential?

  • /pɹɛzɪˈdɛnʃ(ə)l/

Presidential has 4 syllables, split pres·i·den·tial in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-Presidential.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of presidential

  • more presidential comparative
  • most presidential superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does presidential mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Pertaining to a president or presidency.

  2. 2

    obsoletePresiding or watching over.

  3. 3

    With the bearing or composure that befits a president; stately, dignified.

  4. 4

    (of prayers) addressed to God on behalf of the congregation by the presiding priest

    These prayers are addressed to God in the name of the entire holy people and all present, by the priest who presides over the assembly in the person of Christ. It is with good reason, therefore, that they are called the "presidential prayer

adjective

as Presidential
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of presidential.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate presidential?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of presidential: pres., presdl..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Presidential in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchprésidentiel (pertaining to a president or presidency)
Germanpräsidial, Präsidentschaft- (pertaining to a president or presidency), vorsitzend (presiding)
Portuguesepresidencial (pertaining to a president or presidency)
Spanishpresidencial (pertaining to a president or presidency)

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 presidential come from?

From president + -ial.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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