audience
au·di·ence/ˈɔːdi.əns/noun
audience is spelled A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E, 3 syllables: au·di·ence. The wrong spelling people search most is audiance: about 200 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Audience is a noun meaning “A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a…”. The plural of audience is audiences.
How many letters and syllables are in audience?
| Letters | 8: A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: au·di·ence |
| In writing | 54 times per million words; the 1,899th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, audiance, about 200 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell audience?
Audience is spelled A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for audience in either form.
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 audience?
Audience appears 54 times per million words in written English, the 1,899th 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 audience?
- UK /ˈɔːdi.əns/
- British /ˈoːdɪjəns/
- /ˈɔ.di.əns/
Audience has 3 syllables, split au·di·ence in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: Audience_(standard_British_pronunciation).ogg, En-us-audience.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of audience
- audiences plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does audience mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.
We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
- 2
archaicHearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.
- 3
A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
- 4
A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
She managed to get an audience with the Pope.
- 5
The readership of a book or other written publication.
"Private Eye" has a small but faithful audience.
- 6
A following.
The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows.
- 7
An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate audience?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of audience: aud, aud..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Audience in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | assistance, public, auditoire , lectorat , audience |
| German | Publikum, Zuschauer, Audienzen , Audienz |
| Portuguese | público, plateia, audiência |
| Spanish | audiencia, público, graderío, grada |
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 audience come from?
From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”). Doublet of audiencia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).