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transitional

/tɹænˈzɪʃənəl/adjective

transitional is spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-T-I-O-N-A-L: 12 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, transitional means “of, or relating to a transition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in transitional?

Letters12: T-R-A-N-S-I-T-I-O-N-A-L
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.4 times per million words; the 12,216th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is transitional?

Transitional appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th 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 transitional?

  • US /tɹænˈzɪʃənəl/

Transitional has 4 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-transitional.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with transitional?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as transitional from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃənəl/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does transitional mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    of, or relating to a transition

    transitional justice

  2. 2

    temporary; pending the implementation of something new

    XHTML 1.0 Transitional

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

Transitional in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtransitoire (of or relating to a transition), provisoire, temporaire (temporary; pending the implementation of…)
GermanÜbergangs- (of or relating to a transition), vorläufig, übergangsweise (temporary; pending the implementation of…)
Spanishtransicional (of or relating to a transition)

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 transitional come from?

From transition + -al.

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

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