episode
epi·sode/ˈɛp.ə.soʊd/noun
episode is spelled E-P-I-S-O-D-E, 2 syllables: epi·sode. The wrong spelling people search most is epsiode: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 115 of all searches for the word. Episode is a noun meaning “A discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course”. The plural of episode is episodes.
How many letters and syllables are in episode?
| Letters | 7: E-P-I-S-O-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: epi·sode |
| In writing | 93 times per million words; the 1,144th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, epsiode, about 40 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 episode?
Episode is spelled E-P-I-S-O-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 115 of the searches for episode 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 episode?
Episode appears 93 times per million words in written English, the 1,144th 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 episode?
- UK /ˈɛp.ɪ.səʊd/
- US /ˈɛp.ə.soʊd/
- Australia /ˈep.ɪ.səʉd/
Episode has 2 syllables, split epi·sode in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-episode.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of episode
- episodes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does episode mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.
It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.
- 2
A bounded narrative unit within a television series, constituting a single installment that is structurally discrete yet interrelated with the series as a whole.
I can't wait till next week’s episode.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate episode?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of episode: E, epi.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Episode in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | épisode |
| German | Episode , Folge |
| Portuguese | episódio |
| Spanish | episodio, incidente , capítulo |
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 episode come from?
From French épisode, from New Latin *epīsodium, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion, “a parenthetic addition, episode”), neuter of ἐπεισόδιος (epeisódios, “following upon the entrance, coming in besides, adventitious”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + εἰς (eis, “into”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).