induce
/ɪnˈduːs/verb
induce is spelled I-N-D-U-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is enduce: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Induce is a verb meaning “To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon”.
How many letters and syllables are in induce?
| Letters | 6: I-N-D-U-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, enduce, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| 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 induce?
Induce is spelled I-N-D-U-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 23 of the searches for induce 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 induce?
Induce appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th 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 induce?
- US /ɪnˈduːs/
- UK /ɪnˈdjuːs/
Induce 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: En-us-induce.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with induce
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with induce?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as induce from its last stressed vowel (/us/):
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 induce
- induces present, singular, he/she/it
- inducing participle, present
- induced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does induce mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
- 2
To cause, bring about, lead to.
His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep.
- 3
To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).
- 4
To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
- 5
To infer by induction.
- 6
obsoleteTo lead in, bring in, introduce.
- 7
obsoleteTo draw on, place upon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Induce in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | induire |
| German | dazu bringen, anstacheln , bewirken, verursachen, hervorrufen, führen zu |
| Portuguese | induzir |
| Spanish | inducir |
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 induce come from?
From Middle English enducen, borrowed from Latin indūcere (“lead in, bring in, introduce”), from in + dūcō (“lead, conduct”). Compare also abduce, adduce, conduce, deduce, produce, reduce etc. Doublet of endue.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).