Sync or synch?
sync is a noun meaning “Harmony”; synch is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of sync”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) sync is about 21 times as common as synch.
What is the difference between sync and synch?
| sync | synch | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun, verb |
| Meaning | informalHarmony informalA music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films informalTo synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video | Alternative spelling of sync |
| Example | Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices | none recorded |
| Forms | syncs | synchs |
| Pronunciation | /sɪŋk/ | not recorded |
| In writing | 7.2 times per million words | about once in every 3 million words |
Sources: sync and synch in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of sync and synch
sync
- 1
informalClipping of synchronization or synchrony
- 2
informalTo synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video
Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices
- 3
informalHarmony
- 4
informalTo flush all pending I/O operations to disk
- 5
informalA music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films
synch
- 1
Alternative spelling of sync
- 2
Alternative spelling of sync
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, sync or synch?
sync appears 7.2 times per million words; synch about once in every 3 million words.
sync 7.2 times per million wordssynch about once in every 3 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search sync vs synch?
“sync vs synch” is searched about 2,900 times a month on Google and 60 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“synch vs sync”, “sync or synch”).
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