scholastic
/skəˈlæstɪk/noun, adjective
scholastic is spelled S-C-H-O-L-A-S-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is scholarstic: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,250 of all searches for the word. Scholastic is a noun meaning “A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian”. The plural of scholastic is scholastics.
How many letters and syllables are in scholastic?
| Letters | 10: S-C-H-O-L-A-S-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 22,651st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, scholarstic, about 20 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 scholastic?
Scholastic is spelled S-C-H-O-L-A-S-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 1,200 of the searches for scholastic 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 scholastic?
Scholastic appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st 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 scholastic?
- US /skəˈlæstɪk/
Scholastic 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-scholastic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with scholastic?
10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as scholastic from its last stressed vowel (/æstɪk/):
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 scholastic
- scholastics plural
- more scholastic comparative
- most scholastic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scholastic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to school; academic
This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.
- 2
Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
- 3
Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of scholastic.
adjective
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of scholastic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Scholastic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | scolastique , scolaire |
| German | Scholastiker, Scholastikerin , akademisch , scholastisch |
| Portuguese | escolástico |
| Spanish | escolástico , escolar |
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 scholastic come from?
Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).