podcast

pod·cast/ˈpɑdˌkæst/noun, verb

podcast is spelled P-O-D-C-A-S-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables (pod·cast). It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, podcast means “A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of podcast is podcasts.

How many letters and syllables are in podcast?

Letters	7: P-O-D-C-A-S-T
Syllables	2: pod·cast
In writing	14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is podcast?

Podcast appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form in the list.

podcast0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce podcast?

UK /ˈpɒdˌkɑːst/
UK /-ˌkæst/
US /ˈpɑdˌkæst/

Podcast has 2 syllables, split pod·cast in writing.

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

Forms of podcast

podcasts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
podcasting participle, present
podcasted participle, past

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

What does podcast mean?

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

noun

1
A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.
2
An individual episode of such a program.

verb

1
To deliver (information) in the form of a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.
2
To deliver a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.