hypocrite
/ˈhɪ.pə.kɹɪt/noun
hypocrite is spelled H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is hypocrate: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 132 of all searches for the word. Hypocrite is a noun meaning “Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their…”. The plural of hypocrite is hypocrites.
How many letters and syllables are in hypocrite?
| Letters | 9: H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,122nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hypocrate, about 30 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 hypocrite?
Hypocrite is spelled H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 131 of the searches for hypocrite 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 hypocrite?
Hypocrite appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,122nd 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 hypocrite?
- /ˈhɪ.pə.kɹɪt/
Hypocrite 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: Hypocrite-us-pron.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hypocrite
- hypocrites plural
- hypocrit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hypocrite mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hypocrite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person practising hypocrisy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hypocrite, pharisien, pharisienne, tartufe, tartuffe |
| German | Heuchler, Heuchlerin |
| Portuguese | hipócrita |
| Spanish | hipócrita |
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 hypocrite come from?
From Old French ypocrite (Modern French hypocrite), from Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “to answer, act, feign”). Displaced native Old English līċettere.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).