areal

1. 1.

   of or relating to or involving an area

Questions about areal

What does areal mean?

areal means "of or relating to or involving an area".

How many syllables are in areal?

areal has 3 syllables and divides as a-re-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is areal a common word?

areal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.