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november

No·vem·ber/noʊˈvɛmbɚ/noun

november is spelled N-O-V-E-M-B-E-R, 3 syllables: No·vem·ber. The wrong spelling people search most is novemeber: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 85 of all searches for the word. November is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of November from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet”.

How many letters and syllables are in november?

Letters8: N-O-V-E-M-B-E-R
Syllables3: No·vem·ber
In writing126 times per million words; the 831st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched2; the most searched, novemeber, about 150 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 november?

November is spelled N-O-V-E-M-B-E-R. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 71 of the searches for november in either form.

novemberthe right spelling12,660 searches a month
novemeberan extra e150 searches a month
novermberan extra r30 searches a month

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 november?

November appears 126 times per million words in written English, the 831st 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 november?

  • UK /nəʊˈvɛmbə/
  • UK /nəˈvɛmbə/
  • US /noʊˈvɛmbɚ/

November has 3 syllables, split No·vem·ber in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-November.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-november.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with november?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as november from its last stressed vowel (/ɛmbəɹ/):

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).

What does november mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of November from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

proper noun

as November
  1. 1

    The eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December.

    Holonyms: calendar year; year

  2. 2

    A female given name.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

November in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar:

LanguageWords
Frenchnovembre
GermanNovember, Nebelung
Portuguesenovembro
Spanishnoviembre

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 november come from?

From Middle English Novembre, from Old French novembre, from Latin November (“ninth month”), from Latin novem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix. November was the ninth month in the Roman calendar.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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