structural
/ˈstɹʌk(t͡)ʃəɹəl/adjective, noun
structural is spelled S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is structual: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Structural is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or having structure”.
How many letters and syllables are in structural?
| Letters | 10: S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,309th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, structual, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell structural?
Structural is spelled S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-A-L. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for structural 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 structural?
Structural appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th 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 structural?
- US /ˈstɹʌk(t͡)ʃəɹəl/
Structural 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-structural.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of structural
- more structural comparative
- most structural superlative
- structurals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does structural mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, relating to, or having structure.
- 2
Involving the mechanics of construction.
noun
- 1
Structural steel, used in construction.
Freight differentials often increased the spread in favor of the imported structurals. Purchasers repeatedly emphasized that their purchases of imported structurals were split among a number of sources, including Spain, France, West Germany
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Structural in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | structurel, structural |
| German | konstruktiv , baulich |
| Portuguese | estrutural |
| Spanish | estructural |
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 structural come from?
From structure + -al, 19th century.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).