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recital

re·cit·al/ɹɪˈsaɪtl̩/noun

recital is spelled R-E-C-I-T-A-L: 7 letters and 3 syllables (re·cit·al). It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, recital means “The act of reciting (the repetition of something that has been memorized); rehearsal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of recital is recitals.

How many letters and syllables are in recital?

Letters7: R-E-C-I-T-A-L
Syllables3: re·cit·al
In writing1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is recital?

Recital 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 recital?

  • /ɹɪˈsaɪtl̩/

Recital has 3 syllables, split re·cit·al in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-recital.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with recital?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as recital.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: article.

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 recital

  • recitals plural

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

What does recital mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of reciting (the repetition of something that has been memorized); rehearsal

  2. 2

    The act of telling the order of events of something in detail the order of events; narration.

  3. 3

    That which is recited; a story, narration, account.

  4. 4

    A vocal, instrumental or visual performance by a soloist.

    perform a piano recital

  5. 5

    A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation.

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

Recital in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrécital (the act of reciting), considérant (a formal explanation of the reasons on which…)
Portugueserecitação (the act of reciting), considerando (a formal explanation of the reasons on which…), recital (a vocal, instrumental or visual performance by…)
Spanishrecitación, recital (the act of reciting), considerando (a formal explanation of the reasons on which…)
GermanErwägungsgrund (a formal explanation of the reasons on which…), Vortrag, Konzert, Liederabend, Klavierabend (a vocal, instrumental or visual performance by…)

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 recital come from?

From recite + -al.

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

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