scientific
/ˌsaɪ.ənˈtɪf.ɪk/adjective
scientific is spelled S-C-I-E-N-T-I-F-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is scientfic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 159 of all searches for the word. Scientific is an adjective meaning “Related or connected to science”.
How many letters and syllables are in scientific?
| Letters | 10: S-C-I-E-N-T-I-F-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 47 times per million words; the 2,153rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, scientfic, about 10 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 scientific?
Scientific is spelled S-C-I-E-N-T-I-F-I-C. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 80 of the searches for scientific 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 scientific?
Scientific appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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 scientific?
- US /ˌsaɪ.ənˈtɪf.ɪk/
Scientific 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: En-ca-scientific.ogg, En-us-scientific.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with scientific?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as scientific from its last stressed vowel (/ɪfɪk/):
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 scientific
- more scientific comparative
- most scientific superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scientific mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Related or connected to science
- 2
Derived from or consistent with the scientific method.
- 3
In accord with the procedures, methods, conduct and accepted conventions of modern science.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate scientific?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of scientific: STM.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Scientific in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or having to do with science:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | scientifique |
| German | wissenschaftlich, szientifisch |
| Portuguese | científico |
| Spanish | científico |
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 scientific come from?
Borrowed from Middle French scientifique, from Medieval Latin scientificus (“pertaining to science”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).