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calendar

/ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/noun, verb

calendar is spelled C-A-L-E-N-D-A-R: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,302nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “calendar vs calender” about 880 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, calendar means “Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of calendar is calendars.

How many letters and syllables are in calendar?

Letters8: C-A-L-E-N-D-A-R
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing20 times per million words; the 4,302nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is calendar?

Calendar appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,302nd 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 calendar?

  • UK /ˈkæl.ən.də/
  • UK [ˈkʰæl.(ə)n.də]
  • US /ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/

Calendar 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-calendar.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with calendar

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

calendar vs calender880 G

Sounds like: calender, qalandar (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: calender.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with calendar?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as calendar from its last stressed vowel (/æləndəɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: landrace, calander.

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 calendar

  • calendars plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • calendaring participle, present
  • calendared participle, past

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

What does calendar mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.

    The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.

  2. 2

    A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.

    Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.

  3. 3

    A list of planned events.

    The club has a busy calendar this year.

  4. 4

    An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.

    a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court

  5. 5

    USAn appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)

verb

  1. 1

    To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.

    The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date.

  2. 2

    To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

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

How do you abbreviate calendar?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of calendar: cal.

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

Calendar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcalendrier (system by which time is divided), agenda, emploi du temps, programme (list of planned events)
GermanKalender (system by which time is divided)
Portuguesecalendário (system by which time is divided), agenda (list of planned events)
Spanishcalendario (system by which time is divided), agenda (list of planned events), calendarizar (to set a date for a proceeding in court)

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 calendar come from?

From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium. Displaced native Old English rīmbōc and ġerīmbōc.

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

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