behaviour
noun
behaviour is spelled B-E-H-A-V-I-O-U-R. The wrong spelling people search most is behavour: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 60 of all searches for the word. Behaviour is a noun meaning “British standard spelling of behavior”. The plural of behaviour is behaviours.
How many letters and syllables are in behaviour?
| Letters | 9: B-E-H-A-V-I-O-U-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 23 times per million words; the 3,875th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, behavour, about 40 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 behaviour?
Behaviour is spelled B-E-H-A-V-I-O-U-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 60 of the searches for behaviour 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 behaviour?
Behaviour appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th 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 behaviour?
Behaviour 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).
Forms of behaviour
- behaviours plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does behaviour mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
British standard spelling of behavior.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).