sequela
se·que·la/sɪˈkwɛlə/noun
sequela is spelled S-E-Q-U-E-L-A, 3 syllables: se·que·la. The wrong spelling people search most is sequala: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Sequela is a noun meaning “Chiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one, being…”. The plural of sequela is sequelae; Wiktionary also lists sequelæ (archaic).
How many letters and syllables are in sequela?
| Letters | 7: S-E-Q-U-E-L-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: se·que·la |
| In writing | about once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, sequala, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell sequela?
Sequela is spelled S-E-Q-U-E-L-A. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for sequela 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 sequela?
Sequela appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 sequela?
- UK /sɪˈkwiːlə/
- UK /-ˈkwɛ-/
- US /sɪˈkwɛlə/
Sequela has 3 syllables, split se·que·la in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sequela.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Güiseppi669-sequelae.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sequela?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sequela from its last stressed vowel (/ɛlə/):
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 sequela
- sequelae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sequela mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Chiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one, being either partly or wholly caused by it, or made possible by it.
- 2
That which follows; a consequence, an effect.
- 3
rarePeople who adhere to the opinions or teachings of another; followers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sequela in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one:
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 sequela come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin sequēla (“aftermath, sequel; consequence, result”), from sequor (“to follow; to come or go after, pursue”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”)) + -ēla (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Doublet of sequel. The plural form is a learned borrowing from Latin sequēlae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).