consequences
/ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwən.sɪz/noun
consequences is spelled C-O-N-S-E-Q-U-E-N-C-E-S. The wrong spelling people search most is consquences: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 79 of all searches for the word. Consequences is a noun meaning “An old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each…”.
How many letters and syllables are in consequences?
| Letters | 12: C-O-N-S-E-Q-U-E-N-C-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,161st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, consquences, about 60 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 consequences?
Consequences is spelled C-O-N-S-E-Q-U-E-N-C-E-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 79 of the searches for consequences 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 consequences?
Consequences appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st 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 consequences?
- UK /ˈkɒn.sɪ.kwən.sɪz/
- US /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwən.sɪz/
- US /ˈkɑn.sɪˌkwɛn.sɪz/
Consequences has 4 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-consequences.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Grendelkhan-consequences.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does consequences mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each player in turn writing a part of the story, not knowing what the others have written.
- 2
plural of consequence
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).