successive
suc·ces·sive/səkˈsɛsɪv/adjective
successive is spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-V-E, 3 syllables: suc·ces·sive. The wrong spelling people search most is succesive: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Successive is an adjective meaning “Coming one after the other in a series”.
How many letters and syllables are in successive?
| Letters | 10: S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: suc·ces·sive |
| In writing | 7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, succesive, about 30 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 successive?
Successive is spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 successive?
Successive appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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 successive?
- US /səkˈsɛsɪv/
- Australia /səkˈsesɪv/
- /səkˈsesəv/
Successive has 3 syllables, split suc·ces·sive in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-successive.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with successive?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as successive from its last stressed vowel (/ɛsɪv/):
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).
What does successive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Coming one after the other in a series.
They had won the title for five successive years.
- 2
Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
a successive title
- 3
Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Successive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a series:
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 successive come from?
From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).