repetitive
/ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/adjective
repetitive is spelled R-E-P-E-T-I-T-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is repetetive: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Repetitive is an adjective meaning “Happening many times in a similar way; containing repetition; repeating”.
How many letters and syllables are in repetitive?
| Letters | 10: R-E-P-E-T-I-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, repetetive, about 90 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 repetitive?
Repetitive is spelled R-E-P-E-T-I-T-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for repetitive 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 repetitive?
Repetitive appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th 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 repetitive?
- /ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/
Repetitive has 4 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-repetitive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of repetitive
- more repetitive comparative
- most repetitive superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does repetitive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Happening many times in a similar way; containing repetition; repeating.
The lecture was too repetitive and lost its impact.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Repetitive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense happening many times in a similar way:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | répétitif |
| German | repetitiv |
| Portuguese | repetitivo |
| Spanish | repetitivo |
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 repetitive come from?
From Latin repetitus, with the suffix -ive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).