withdrawal
/wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/noun
withdrawal is spelled W-I-T-H-D-R-A-W-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is withdrawl: about 1,380 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Withdrawal is a noun meaning “Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money”. The plural of withdrawal is withdrawals.
How many letters and syllables are in withdrawal?
| Letters | 10: W-I-T-H-D-R-A-W-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,565th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, withdrawl, about 1,380 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell withdrawal?
Withdrawal is spelled W-I-T-H-D-R-A-W-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for withdrawal 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 withdrawal?
Withdrawal appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th 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 withdrawal?
- UK /wɪðˈdɹɔː(ə)l/
- UK /wɪθˈdɹɔː(ə)l/
- US /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/
Withdrawal 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-withdrawal.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-withdrawal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with withdrawal
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with withdrawal?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as withdrawal from its last stressed vowel (/ɔl/):
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).
Forms of withdrawal
- withdrawals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does withdrawal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
- 2
A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
- 3
A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
heroin withdrawal
- 4
An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
- 5
The sum of money taken from a bank account.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Withdrawal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | retrait , sevrage, manque |
| German | Entnahme, Abhebung , Entzug , Rückzug, Zurücknahme |
| Portuguese | saque , síndrome de abstinência , retirada |
| Spanish | retirada , disposición, rescisión |
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 withdrawal come from?
From withdraw + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).