# secular

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈsɛkjʊlə/ · frequency rank #7,739

## Definitions
1. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
2. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
3. Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
4. Happening once in an age or century.
5. Continuing over a long period of time.
6. Centuries-old, ancient.
7. Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
8. Unperturbed over time.

## Etymology
From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.

## Easily confused with
- **scalar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scalar-vs-secular)

## Common misspellings (10)
`escular`, `sceular`, `seccular`, `secluar`, `secualr`, `secularr`, `secullar`, `seculra`, `seuclar`, `ssecular`

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