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syntactical

/sɪnˈtæktəkəl/adjective

syntactical is spelled S-Y-N-T-A-C-T-I-C-A-L: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, syntactical means “syntactic, related to syntax” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in syntactical?

Letters11: S-Y-N-T-A-C-T-I-C-A-L
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 94,827th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is syntactical?

Syntactical appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th 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 syntactical?

  • UK /sɪnˈtaktɪkl/
  • US /sɪnˈtæktəkəl/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-syntactical.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of syntactical

  • more syntactical comparative
  • most syntactical superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does syntactical mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    syntactic, related to syntax

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does syntactical come from?

From Latin syntacticus + -al.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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