redundant
/ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/adjective
redundant is spelled R-E-D-U-N-D-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is redundent: about 330 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Redundant is an adjective meaning “Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary (and therefore no longer needed because other things fulfill its…”.
How many letters and syllables are in redundant?
| Letters | 9: R-E-D-U-N-D-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, redundent, about 330 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 redundant?
Redundant is spelled R-E-D-U-N-D-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for redundant 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 redundant?
Redundant appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th 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 redundant?
- US /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/
- Australia /ɹɪˈdɐn.dənt/
- /ɹəˈdɐn.dənt/
Redundant 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: En-au-redundant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with redundant?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as redundant from its last stressed vowel (/ʌndənt/):
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 redundant
- more redundant comparative
- most redundant superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does redundant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary (and therefore no longer needed because other things fulfill its task or purpose).
- 2
Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
- 3
Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.
- 4
Containing duplicate pathways to send a message.
- 5
AustraliaIrelandUKDismissed from employment because no longer needed.
Four employees were made redundant.
- 6
Obsolete or outdated; discarded, or fit to be discarded.
[There was a] Ukrainian raid on the major Russian port [of] Novorossiysk. … Novorossiysk is theoretically one of Putin's most well-protected cities. It underscores once again how such a concept is more or less redundant in this new age of i
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate redundant?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of redundant: Raft, redund..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Redundant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | redondant |
| German | überflüssig , redundant, überzählig, doppelt gemoppelt |
| Portuguese | redundante |
| Spanish | superfluo, redundante |
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 redundant come from?
From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).