syncytial
/sɪnˈsɪʃ.(i.)əl/adjective
syncytial is spelled S-Y-N-C-Y-T-I-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is syncitial: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Syncytial is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to a syncytium”.
How do you spell syncytial?
Syncytial is spelled S-Y-N-C-Y-T-I-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for syncytial 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.
What does syncytial mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to a syncytium.
- 2
Characterized by interdependence and a sense of mutual identity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce syncytial?
- UK /sɪnˈsɪt.i.əl/
- UK /sɪnˈsɪʃ.əl/
- US /sɪnˈsɪʃ.(i.)əl/
Syncytial has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of syncytial
- more syncytial comparative
- most syncytial superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is syncytial?
Syncytial appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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).
Syncytial in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to a syncytium:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | syncytial |
| German | synzytial |
| Portuguese | sincicial |
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 syncytial come from?
From syncyti(um) + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).