systolic
adjective, noun
systolic is spelled S-Y-S-T-O-L-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is cystolic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 204 of all searches for the word. Systolic is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to a systole or heart contraction”.
How many letters and syllables are in systolic?
| Letters | 8: S-Y-S-T-O-L-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 40,703rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cystolic, about 10 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 systolic?
Systolic is spelled S-Y-S-T-O-L-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 206 of the searches for systolic 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 systolic?
Systolic appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,703rd 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 systolic?
Systolic 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).
Forms of systolic
- systolics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does systolic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to a systole or heart contraction
- 2
Relating to a systolic array
a systolic compiler
- 3
Relating to the mathematical concept of a systole
noun
- 1
colloquialEllipsis of systolic blood pressure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Systolic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or relating to systole:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | systolique |
| Portuguese | sistólico |
| Spanish | sistólico |
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 systolic come from?
From systole + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).