regional
/ˈɹi.d͡ʒə.nəl/adjective, noun
regional is spelled R-E-G-I-O-N-A-L: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 52 times per million words in written English, the 1,941st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, regional means “Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in regional?
| Letters | 8: R-E-G-I-O-N-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 52 times per million words; the 1,941st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is regional?
Regional appears 52 times per million words in written English, the 1,941st 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 regional?
- UK /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/
- UK /ˈɹiːd͡ʒ.nəl/
- US /ˈɹi.d͡ʒə.nəl/
Regional 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-us-regional.ogg, En-au-regional.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with regional?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as regional (/idʒənəl/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: geraniol.
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 regional
- regionals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does regional mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
Near-synonyms: intraregional, locoregional
- 2
Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
regional rainfall patterns
- 3
Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
Near-synonym: locoregional
- 4
AustraliaOf a state or other geographic area, denoting those parts that are not metropolitan but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.
noun
- 1
An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate regional?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of regional: Reg'l.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Regional in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to a specific region:
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 regional come from?
From Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).