sepulchral
/səˈpʌlkɹəl/adjective
sepulchral is spelled S-E-P-U-L-C-H-R-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is sepulcheral: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 47 of all searches for the word. Sepulchral is an adjective meaning “Relating to a grave or to death; funereal”.
How many letters and syllables are in sepulchral?
| Letters | 10: S-E-P-U-L-C-H-R-A-L |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 99,289th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sepulcheral, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 sepulchral?
Sepulchral is spelled S-E-P-U-L-C-H-R-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 47 of the searches for sepulchral 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 sepulchral?
Sepulchral appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th 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 sepulchral?
- /səˈpʌlkɹəl/
- /səˈpʊlkɹəl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sepulchral.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sepulchral
- more sepulchral comparative
- most sepulchral superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sepulchral mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.
- 2
Suggestive of a grave or of death; gloomy; solemn.
- 3
Having a hollow and deep sound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sepulchral in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 sepulchral come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin sepulcralis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).