euphonious
/juːˈfəʊ.nɪ.əs/
"euphonious" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“euphonious” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of sounds, especially speech: demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding.
| 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) |
Where “euphonious” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for euphonious is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /juːˈfəʊ.nɪ.əs/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-U-P-H-O-N-I-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /juːˈfəʊ.nɪ.əs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.