honoured
hon·oured/ˈɑnɚd/adjective, verb
honoured is an adjective meaning “Respected, having received honour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-N-O-U-R-E-D and has 2 syllables (hon·oured), and it appears 5.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does honoured mean?
adjective
- 1
UKRespected, having received honour.
verb
- 1
UKsimple past and past participle of honour
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce honoured?
- US /ˈɑnɚd/
- UK /ˈɒnəd/
Honoured has 2 syllables, split hon·oured in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-honoured.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of honoured
- more honoured comparative
- most honoured superlative
- honored US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is honoured?
Honoured appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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).
Words people confuse with honoured
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: honored.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Honoured in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense respected, having received honour:
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.