euphonious
/juːˈfəʊ.nɪ.əs/
"euphonious" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“euphonious” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
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- below top-frequency English
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of sounds, especially speech: demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding.
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Index EN-euphonious · euphonious · English
euphonious · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | euphonious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /juːˈfəʊ.nɪ.əs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “euphonious” in English
Rare enough to double-check
euphonious is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /juːˈfəʊ.nɪ.əs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of sounds, especially speech: demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding.".
Zero misspellings are on record for euphonious in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From euphonical + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality, commonly in abundance). Euphonical is derived from euphonic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’); with euphonic from euphony + … The correct English form is euphonious, spelled E-U-P-H-O-N-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Of sounds, especially speech: demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how euphonious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Before I ſet forward on my travels, I choſe to change my name from Collier to Coglioni or Collioni, as more euphonious; […]
We think it difficult to copy more successfully a model so curiously polished as the Botanic Garden; to assemble ideas more luxuriously elegant; to annex epithets more unexpectedly apposite: or to harmonize couplets more imitative and euphonious.
Etymology
From euphonical + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality, commonly in abundance). Euphonical is derived from euphonic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’); with euphonic from euphony + -ic (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’), and euphony borrowed from French euphonie, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὐ- (eu-, prefix meaning ‘good, well’) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; (human) voice; discourse, speech”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.