other
oth·er/ˈʌðə/determiner, adjective, noun, verb
other is spelled O-T-H-E-R, 2 syllables: oth·er. The wrong spelling people search most is othere: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 370 of all searches for the word. Other is a determiner meaning “Not the one or ones previously referred to”.
How many letters and syllables are in other?
| Letters | 5: O-T-H-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: oth·er |
| In writing | 1,445 times per million words; the 76th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, othere, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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 other?
Other is spelled O-T-H-E-R. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 247 of the searches for other 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 other?
Other appears 1,445 times per million words in written English, the 76th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Other, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce other?
- UK /ˈʌðə/
- /ʊðə/
- /ˈʌðəɹ/
Other has 2 syllables, split oth·er in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-other.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-other.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-other.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with other?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as other (/ʌðə/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: throe.
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 other
- others plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- othering participle, present
- othered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does other mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
determiner
- 1
Not the one or ones previously referred to.
Earning less than $2,000 a month, I have no other source of income except for gifts from relatives.
adjective
- 1
See other (determiner) below.
Pick up the phone and find out who's on the other end.
- 2
Second.
I get paid every other week.
- 3
Alien.
- 4
Different.
- 5
obsoleteLeft, as opposed to right.
noun
- 1
An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
- 2
The other one; the second of two.
One boat is not better than the other.
verb
- 1
To regard, label, or treat as an “other”, as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
- 2
To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.
adverb
- 1
obsoleteOtherwise.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate other?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of other: OTH.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Other in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 other come from?
From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).