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declare

/dɪˈklɛɚ/verb

declare is spelled D-E-C-L-A-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is declaire: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Declare is a verb meaning “To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically”.

How many letters and syllables are in declare?

Letters7: D-E-C-L-A-R-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing11 times per million words; the 6,565th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, declaire, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)
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 do you spell declare?

Declare is spelled D-E-C-L-A-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for declare in either form.

declarethe right spelling650 searches a month
declairean extra i20 searches a month

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 declare?

Declare appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th 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 declare?

  • UK /dɪˈklɛə/
  • US /dɪˈklɛɚ/
  • US /dəˈklɛɚ/

Declare has 2 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-declare.ogg, En-au-declare.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with declare?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as declare from its last stressed vowel (/ɛəɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: creedal, cedrela.

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 declare

  • declares present, singular, he/she/it
  • declaring participle, present
  • declared participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

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

What does declare mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo make clear, explain, interpret.

  2. 2

    To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.

    He declared him innocent.

  3. 3

    To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.

  4. 4

    To show one's cards in order to score.

  5. 5

    For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result

    Houghton and Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare in the 2015 general election.

  6. 6

    The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.

    He declared at 689-7.

  7. 7

    To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.

    The counter "i" was declared as an integer.

  8. 8

    slangTo declare war.

    France declared on me, I'm finished!

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

Declare in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchexpliquer (to make clear, explain), déclarer (to make a declaration)
Spanishexplicar, aclarar (to make clear, explain), declarar (to make a declaration)
Germanbekanntmachen, bekanntgeben, deklarieren (to make a declaration), ausrufen, aussagen, erklären (to announce one's support, choice, opinion, etc)
Portuguesedeclarar (to make a declaration)

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 declare come from?

From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

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

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