secretarial

1. 1.

   of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work

Questions about secretarial

What does secretarial mean?

secretarial means "of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work".

How many syllables are in secretarial?

secretarial has 5 syllables: sec-re-tar-i-al. The stress falls on "tar". In IPA it is /ˌsɛkɹəˈtɛɹiəl/.

Is secretarial a common word?

secretarial is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.