entire
en·tire/ɪnˈtaɪɚ/adjective, noun
entire is spelled E-N-T-I-R-E, 2 syllables: en·tire. The wrong spelling people search most is enitre: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 91 of all searches for the word. Entire is an adjective meaning “Whole; complete”.
How many letters and syllables are in entire?
| Letters | 6: E-N-T-I-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: en·tire |
| In writing | 123 times per million words; the 851st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, enitre, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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); 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 entire?
Entire is spelled E-N-T-I-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 91 of the searches for entire 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 entire?
Entire appears 123 times per million words in written English, the 851st 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 entire?
- UK /ɪnˈtaɪə/
- UK /ənˈtaɪə/
- US /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/
Entire has 2 syllables, split en·tire in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-entire.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with entire?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as entire from its last stressed vowel (/aɪəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: entier, triene.
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 entire
- entires plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does entire mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Whole; complete.
We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
- 2
Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
- 3
Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- 4
Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
- 5
Not gelded.
- 6
Morally whole; pure; sheer.
- 7
Internal; interior.
noun
- 1
archaicThe whole of something; the entirety.
- 2
An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
- 3
A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
- 4
Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Entire in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense whole:
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 entire come from?
From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”). Doublet of entier and integer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).