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candour

noun

candour is a noun meaning “British and Canada standard spelling of candor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-N-D-O-U-R, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of candour is candours.

What does candour mean?

noun

  1. 1

    CanadaUKBritish and Canada standard spelling of candor.

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

Forms of candour

  • candours plural

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

How common is candour?

Candour appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 55,433rd 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).