audio
/ˈɔ.di.oʊ/adjective, noun
audio is spelled A-U-D-I-O. The wrong spelling people search most is autio: about 370 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 45 of all searches for the word. Audio is an adjective meaning “Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight”.
How many letters and syllables are in audio?
| Letters | 5: A-U-D-I-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,161st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, autio, about 370 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 audio?
Audio is spelled A-U-D-I-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 45 of the searches for audio 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 audio?
Audio appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st 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 audio?
- UK /ˈɔːdi.əʊ/
- British /ˈoːdɪjəw/
- US /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/
Audio has 3 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-audio.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of audio
- more audio comparative
- most audio superlative
- audios plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does audio mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
noun
- 1
Sound, or a sound signal.
- 2
A piece of sound that is recorded electronically.
I DMed him an audio of myself singing the South Park intro.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate audio?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of audio: ch.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Audio in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | audio , audio- |
| German | Audio- , audio- |
| Portuguese | auditivo , audio- , áudio |
| Spanish | de sonido, de audio , audio- , audio |
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 audio come from?
Clipping of audio-. Cognates include Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).