announce
an·nounce/əˈnaʊn(t)s/verb
announce is spelled A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E, 2 syllables: an·nounce. The wrong spelling people search most is anounce: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Announce is a verb meaning “To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known”.
How many letters and syllables are in announce?
| Letters | 8: A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: an·nounce |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, anounce, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 announce?
Announce is spelled A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 announce?
Announce appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th 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 announce?
- UK /əˈnaʊns/
- US /əˈnaʊn(t)s/
Announce has 2 syllables, split an·nounce in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-announce.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with announce?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as announce from its last stressed vowel (/aʊns/):
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 announce
- announces present, singular, he/she/it
- announcing participle, present
- announced participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does announce mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.
- 2
To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
- 3
USTo act as announcer for (an event, usually sports).
Our coach has retired, but occasionally he still announces the games.
- 4
USTo act or work as an announcer.
Our coach has retired, but occasionally he still announces.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Announce in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | annoncer |
| German | ankündigen, verkünden, bekanntgeben, verkündigen, verlauten |
| Portuguese | anunciar , pronunciar |
| Spanish | anunciar , declarar |
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 announce come from?
From Old French anoncier, from Latin annūntiāre, from ad + nūntiō (“report, relate”), from nūntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio. Doublet of annunciate. See also an-.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).