trivial
/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/adjective
trivial is spelled T-R-I-V-I-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is trival: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Trivial is an adjective meaning “Ignorable; of little significance or value”.
How many letters and syllables are in trivial?
| Letters | 7: T-R-I-V-I-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.6 times per million words; the 11,870th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, trival, about 180 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 trivial?
Trivial is spelled T-R-I-V-I-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for trivial 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 trivial?
Trivial appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th 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 trivial?
- /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
- /ˈtɹɪv.jəl/
Trivial 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). Recordings: En-us-trivial.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of trivial
- more trivial comparative
- most trivial superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does trivial mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- 2
Commonplace, ordinary.
- 3
Easy; requiring little skill or effort.
- 4
Concerned with or involving trivia.
- 5
Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- 6
Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- 7
Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
- 8
Self-evident.
noun
- 1
obsoleteAny of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Trivial in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | trivial, anodin , banal |
| German | unbedeutend, bedeutungslos, belanglos, geringfügig , trivial |
| Portuguese | trivial |
| Spanish | trivial |
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.