horizon
/həˈɹaɪ.zən/noun
horizon is spelled H-O-R-I-Z-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is horison: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 357 of all searches for the word. Horizon is a noun meaning “The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance”. The plural of horizon is horizons.
How many letters and syllables are in horizon?
| Letters | 7: H-O-R-I-Z-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, horison, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell horizon?
Horizon is spelled H-O-R-I-Z-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 353 of the searches for horizon 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 horizon?
Horizon appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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 horizon?
- US /həˈɹaɪ.zən/
- Australia /həˈɹɑe.zən/
- [həˈɹɑe̯.zən]
Horizon has 3 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: En-us-horizon.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-horizon.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of horizon
- horizons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does horizon mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
A tall building was visible on the whole sweep of the horizon.
- 2
The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
Some students take a gap year after finishing high school to broaden their horizons.
- 3
The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- 4
A specific layer of soil, or stratum
- 5
USA cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- 6
Any level line or surface.
- 7
The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate horizon?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of horizon: hrzn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Horizon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky:
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 horizon come from?
Inherited from Middle English orisonte, orisoun, from Middle French horizon, horizonte, from Old French orisonte, orison, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).