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choice

/tʃɔɪs/noun, adjective, interjection

choice is spelled C-H-O-I-C-E: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 120 times per million words in written English, the 873rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, choice means “An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of choice is choices.

How many letters and syllables are in choice?

Letters6: C-H-O-I-C-E
Syllables1
In writing120 times per million words; the 873rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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

How common is choice?

Choice appears 120 times per million words in written English, the 873rd 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 choice?

  • /tʃɔɪs/
  • British [t͡ʃoɪ̯s]
  • [t͡ʃɒɪ̯s]

Choice has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-choice.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with choice?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as choice.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: echoic.

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 choice

  • choices plural
  • choicer comparative
  • more choice comparative
  • choicest superlative
  • most choice superlative

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

What does choice mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

    Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?

  2. 2

    The power to choose.

    She didn't leave us much choice.

  3. 3

    One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

    The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.

  4. 4

    Anything that can be chosen.

    You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate.

  5. 5

    The best or most preferable part.

  6. 6

    obsoleteCare and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.

  7. 7

    obsoleteA sufficient number to choose among.

  8. 8

    Ellipsis of axiom of choice.

adjective

  1. 1

    Especially good or preferred.

    It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.

  2. 2

    obsoleteCareful in choosing; discriminating.

    Thus musing, he ate nothing; the Queen, believing that it was in consequence of his having been unkindly received, loaded him with caresses; she herself handed him some exquisite fruits, of which she was very choice.

interjection

  1. 1

    slangCool; excellent.

    "I'm going to the movies." –"Choice!"

noun

as CHOICE
  1. 1

    Acronym of Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense

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

Choice in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchoix (option or decision), morceau de choix (definite: best or most preferable part), de choix (especially good or preferred)
GermanWahl (option or decision), erlesen (especially good or preferred), Auswahl (anything that can be chosen)
Portugueseescolha (option or decision), seleto (especially good or preferred)
Spanishselección, decisión, opción, escogimiento, escogencia, escogida (option or decision)

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 choice come from?

From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *causīre (“to choose”), from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kausjan, “to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic *kauzijaną, from *keusaną (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”), Old English ċēosan (“to choose”), Old Norse kjósa (“to choose”). More at choose.

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

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