premiere
/pɹəˈmɪɚ/noun, verb
premiere is spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is premeire: about 230 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Premiere is a noun meaning “The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with…”. The plural of premiere is premières or premieres.
How many letters and syllables are in premiere?
| Letters | 8: P-R-E-M-I-E-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, premeire, about 230 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 premiere?
Premiere is spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for premiere 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 premiere?
Premiere appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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 premiere?
- US /pɹəˈmɪɚ/
- US /pɹɪ-/
- US /-ˈmiɚ/
Premiere 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-premiere.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with premiere
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 premiere?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as premiere from its last stressed vowel (/ɪəɹ/):
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 premiere
- premières plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- premièring participle, present
- premièred participle, past
- premieres plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- première
- premiering participle, present
- premiered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does premiere mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests.
- 2
The first episode of a television show or a particular season of that show.
- 3
In a series of narrative works, the installment that is chronologically set first.
- 4
The leading woman of a group, especially in a theatrical cast.
verb
- 1
Of a film or play, to play for the first time.
The new film premieres this weekend.
- 2
To present a film or play for the first time.
The local theatre will premiere its latest play this week.
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of premiere.
verb
- 1
Alternative spelling of premiere.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Premiere in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | première |
| German | Premiere, Uraufführung, Erstaufführung , uraufführen |
| Portuguese | estreia , estrear |
| Spanish | estreno, premier , estrenar |
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 premiere come from?
From French première (“first”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).