# trivial

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/ · frequency rank #11,991

## Definitions
1. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
2. Commonplace, ordinary.
3. Concerned with or involving trivia.
4. Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
5. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
6. Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
7. Self-evident.
8. Pertaining to the trivium.
9. Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

## Etymology
PIE word
 *tréyes
* From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia.
* From the distinction between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).

## Easily confused with
- **trial** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trial-vs-trivial)
- **tribal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tribal-vs-trivial)
- **trivia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trivia-vs-trivial)
- **Tricia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tricia-vs-trivial)

## Common misspellings (10)
`rtivial`, `tirvial`, `triival`, `trivail`, `triviall`, `trivila`, `trivvial`, `trrivial`, `trviial`, `ttrivial`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/trivial