# suicidal

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˌsuː.ɪˈsaɪ.dəl/ · frequency rank #12,869

## Definitions
1. Pertaining to suicide.
2. Of a person, likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
3. Of a voluntarily-chosen course of action, highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part.
4. Extremely reckless.

## Etymology
From suicide + -al.

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

## Common misspellings (11)
`siucidal`, `ssuicidal`, `suciidal`, `suiccidal`, `suicdial`, `suiciadl`, `suicidall`, `suiciddal`, `suicidla`, `suiicdal`, `usicidal`

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