political

/\pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#28,695

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

political is anFrenchadj. It means: Politique (qui a rapport aux affaires publiques). Pronounced \pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl\. Often confused with politics.

Key facts for political
PropertyValue
Headwordpolitical
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#28,695
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of political in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for political is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,695 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Politique (qui a rapport aux affaires publiques).".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for political, with forms such as "oplitical", "ploitical", and "poiltical". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "politics", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is political, spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Politique (qui a rapport aux affaires publiques).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oplitical,ploitical,poiltical,poliitcal,politcial,politiacl,politicall,politiccal,politicla,polittical,pollitical,poltiical,ppolitical

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for political

Misspelling Variants of "political"

oplitical9ploitical9poiltical9poliitcal9politcial9politiacl9politicall10politiccal10
Misspelling Variants of "political"

Frequency rank: #28,695 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "political"?
"political" is spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl\.
What does "political" mean?
As an adj, "political" means: Politique (qui a rapport aux affaires publiques).
What words are commonly confused with "political"?
"political" is commonly confused with "politics". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "political"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "political" is \pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "political" come from?
"political" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.