parlour
/ˈpɑɹlɚ/noun
parlour is spelled P-A-R-L-O-U-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, parlour means “Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of parlour is parlours.
How many letters and syllables are in parlour?
| Letters | 7: P-A-R-L-O-U-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is parlour?
Parlour appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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 parlour?
- UK /ˈpɑːlə/
- US /ˈpɑɹlɚ/
- /ˈpaːlɔː/
Parlour 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-parlour.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with parlour?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as parlour from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹləɹ/):
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 parlour
- parlours plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does parlour mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).