honour
/ˈɑnəɹ/noun, verb, interjection
honour is spelled H-O-N-O-U-R. The wrong spelling people search most is hounour: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 55 of all searches for the word. Honour is a noun meaning “British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor”. The plural of honour is honours.
How many letters and syllables are in honour?
| Letters | 6: H-O-N-O-U-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 23 times per million words; the 3,814th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hounour, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 honour?
Honour is spelled H-O-N-O-U-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 55 of the searches for honour 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 honour?
Honour appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,814th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Honour, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce honour?
- UK /ˈɒnə/
- US /ˈɑnəɹ/
Honour 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-honour.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with honour
Also written: honoured.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with honour?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as honour from its last stressed vowel (/ɑnəɹ/):
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 honour
- honours plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- honouring participle, present
- honoured participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does honour mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
Honours are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
verb
- 1
British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
interjection
- 1
British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).