traditional

tra·di·tion·al/tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/adjective, noun

traditional is spelled T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-L, 4 syllables: tra·di·tion·al. The wrong spelling people search most is tradional: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 79 of all searches for the word. Traditional is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or derived from tradition”.

How many letters and syllables are in traditional?

Letters	11: T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-L
Syllables	4: tra·di·tion·al
In writing	69 times per million words; the 1,528th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	2; the most searched, tradional, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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).

How do you spell traditional?

Traditional is spelled T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-L. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 57 of the searches for traditional in either form.

traditionalthe right spelling3,890 searches a month

tradionala missing i, a missing t50 searches a month

tradtionala missing i20 searches a month

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 traditional?

Traditional appears 69 times per million words in written English, the 1,528th most frequent word form in the list.

traditional0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce traditional?

/tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/
[tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nl̩]
/tɹəˈdɪʃ.nəl/

Traditional has 4 syllables, split tra·di·tion·al in writing.

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

Forms of traditional

more traditional comparative
most traditional superlative
traditionals plural

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

What does traditional mean?

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

adjective

1
Of, relating to, or derived from tradition.
This dance is one of the traditional customs in the area.
2
Communicated from ancestors to descendants orally.
traditional expositions of the Scriptures
3
In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
4
Observant of tradition; old-fashioned.
Her traditional values are antiquated.
5
Produced with physical media, as opposed to digital art.
6
Relating to traditional Chinese.
The traditional form of the character has twice as many strokes as the simplified form.

noun

1
One with traditional beliefs.
2
Anything that is traditional, conventional, standard.
3
Art produced with physical media, as opposed to digital art.
4
informalEllipsis of traditional Chinese.
5
informalEllipsis of traditional grip.