tremendous
tre·men·dous/tɹɪˈmɛndəs/adjective
tremendous is spelled T-R-E-M-E-N-D-O-U-S, 3 syllables: tre·men·dous. The wrong spelling people search most is tremendious: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,250 of all searches for the word. Tremendous is an adjective meaning “Awe-inspiring; terrific”.
How many letters and syllables are in tremendous?
| Letters | 10: T-R-E-M-E-N-D-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: tre·men·dous |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, tremendious, about 20 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 tremendous?
Tremendous is spelled T-R-E-M-E-N-D-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 1,248 of the searches for tremendous 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 tremendous?
Tremendous appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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 tremendous?
- /tɹɪˈmɛndəs/
- /tɹəˈmɛndəs/
Tremendous has 3 syllables, split tre·men·dous in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-tremendous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of tremendous
- more tremendous comparative
- most tremendous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tremendous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Awe-inspiring; terrific.
- 2
Notable for its size, power, or excellence.
Van Beethoven's ninth symphony is a tremendous piece of music.
- 3
Extremely large (in amount, extent, degree, etc.) or great
There was a tremendous outpouring of support.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tremendous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | formidable , énorme |
| Portuguese | tremendo, formidável , enorme |
| Spanish | tremendo, apoteósico |
| German | beträchtlich, außerordentlich |
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 tremendous come from?
Adapted borrowing of Latin tremendus (“fearful, terrible”, gerundive of tremō (“to tremble”)) + -ous. Doublet of tremend.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).