ardor

/ˈɑːɹdɚ/noun

ardor is spelled A-R-D-O-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ardor means “Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ardor is ardors.

How many letters and syllables are in ardor?

Letters	5: A-R-D-O-R
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 5 million words; the 63,645th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	harder larder carder

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is ardor?

Ardor appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form in the list.

ardor0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce ardor?

UK /ˈɑːdə/
US /ˈɑːɹdɚ/

Ardor has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-ardor.ogg, En-au-ardor.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with ardor?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as ardor from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹdəɹ/):

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 ardor

ardors plural
ardour UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does ardor mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
USGreat warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
2
USSpirit; enthusiasm; passion.
3
USIntense heat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Ardor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	ardeur, ferveur (great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion)
German	Begeisterung, Feuereifer, Hitze, Überschwang (great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion)
Portuguese	ardor (great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion)
Spanish	fervor, ardor (great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion), pasión (spirit)

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.