# relational

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #21,635

## Definitions
1. Relating to relations.
2. Friendly and peaceful.
3. Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
4. Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
5. Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.

## Etymology
From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.

## Easily confused with
- **relations** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relational-vs-relations)
- **rotational** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relational-vs-rotational)
- **relation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relation-vs-relational)
- **rational** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rational-vs-relational)

## Common misspellings (14)
`erlational`, `realtional`, `relaitonal`, `relatinoal`, `relatioanl`, `relationall`, `relationla`, `relationnal`, `relatoinal`, `relattional`, `rellational`, `reltaional`, `rleational`, `rrelational`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/relational