procedure
pro·ced·ure/pɹəˈsi.d͡ʒɚ/noun
procedure is spelled P-R-O-C-E-D-U-R-E, 3 syllables: pro·ced·ure. The wrong spelling people search most is proceedure: about 240 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 28 of all searches for the word. Procedure is a noun meaning “A particular method for performing a task”. The plural of procedure is procedures.
How many letters and syllables are in procedure?
| Letters | 9: P-R-O-C-E-D-U-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: pro·ced·ure |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,364th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, proceedure, about 240 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 procedure?
Procedure is spelled P-R-O-C-E-D-U-R-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 27 of the searches for procedure 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 procedure?
Procedure appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th 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 procedure?
- UK /pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/
- US /pɹəˈsi.d͡ʒɚ/
- Australia /pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/
Procedure has 3 syllables, split pro·ced·ure in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-procedure.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with procedure?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as procedure (/idʒəɹ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: reproduce.
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 procedure
- procedures plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does procedure mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A particular method for performing a task.
- 2
A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- 3
The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.
- 4
The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- 5
obsoleteThat which results; issue; product.
- 6
A subroutine coded to perform a specific task, which is not permitted a return value when distinguished from a function.
- 7
A surgical operation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate procedure?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of procedure: proc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Procedure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | procédé, procédure , fonction |
| German | Verfahren, Verfahrensweise, [medizinischer] Eingriff , Prozess, Vorgehen, Vorgehensweise |
| Portuguese | procedimento |
| Spanish | procedimiento , trámite |
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 procedure come from?
From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).