prestigious
/pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/adjective
prestigious is spelled P-R-E-S-T-I-G-I-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is prestigous: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Prestigious is an adjective meaning “Of high prestige”.
How many letters and syllables are in prestigious?
| Letters | 11: P-R-E-S-T-I-G-I-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, prestigous, about 140 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 prestigious?
Prestigious is spelled P-R-E-S-T-I-G-I-O-U-S. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for prestigious 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 prestigious?
Prestigious appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 prestigious?
- UK /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/
- UK /pɹə-/
- US /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/
Prestigious has 3 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-prestigious.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of prestigious
- more prestigious comparative
- most prestigious superlative
- præstigious
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prestigious mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of high prestige.
She has a prestigious job with an international organization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prestigious in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of high prestige:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prestigieux |
| German | hoch angesehen, prestigeträchtig, repräsentativ, herrschaftlich |
| Portuguese | prestigioso |
| Spanish | prestigioso |
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 prestigious come from?
Attested since the 1540s; Latin praestigiosus (“full of tricks”), praestigiae (“juggler's tricks”), possibly an alteration of praestringō (“to blindfold, to dazzle”), from prae- (“before”) with stringō (“to bind or tie”); equivalent to prestige + -ious. Unstressed /ɛ/ is retained by analogy with prestige.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).