chronicle
chron·i·cle/ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩/noun, verb
chronicle is spelled C-H-R-O-N-I-C-L-E, 3 syllables: chron·i·cle. The wrong spelling people search most is chronical: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Chronicle is a noun meaning “A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time”. The plural of chronicle is chronicles.
How many letters and syllables are in chronicle?
| Letters | 9: C-H-R-O-N-I-C-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: chron·i·cle |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, chronical, about 270 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 chronicle?
Chronicle is spelled C-H-R-O-N-I-C-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for chronicle 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 chronicle?
Chronicle appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 chronicle?
- UK /ˈkɹɒnɪkəl/
- US /ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩/
Chronicle has 3 syllables, split chron·i·cle in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chronicle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chronicle
- chronicles plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- chronicling participle, present
- chronicled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chronicle mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
verb
- 1
To record in or as in a chronicle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Chronicle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 chronicle come from?
From Middle English cronicle, cronycle, from Anglo-Norman cronicle, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).