pronounce

/pɹəˈnaʊns/verb, noun

pronounce is spelled P-R-O-N-O-U-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is pronunce: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 118 of all searches for the word. Pronounce is a verb meaning “To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously”.

How many letters and syllables are in pronounce?

Letters	9: P-R-O-N-O-U-N-C-E
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	4.6 times per million words; the 11,870th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	1; the most searched, pronunce, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with	announce trounce mispronounce jounce

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 pronounce?

Pronounce is spelled P-R-O-N-O-U-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 118 of the searches for pronounce in either form.

pronouncethe right spelling6,990 searches a month

pronuncea missing o60 searches a month

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 pronounce?

Pronounce appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th most frequent word form in the list.

pronounce0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

How do you pronounce pronounce?

US /pɹəˈnaʊns/

Pronounce 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-pronounce.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with pronounce?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as pronounce from its last stressed vowel (/aʊns/):

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 pronounce

pronounces present, singular, he/she/it
pronouncing participle, present
pronounced participle, past

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

What does pronounce mean?

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

verb

1
To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.
I hereby pronounce you man and wife.
2
To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.
The doctor pronounced them legally dead.
3
To pronounce dead.
Despite resuscitative efforts, Mr. Gray was pronounced on 4/19/2015.
4
To pass judgment.
The judge had pronounced often before, but never in front of such a crowd.
5
To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
6
To sound like.
The Icelandic double l in Eyjafjallajökull is pronounced tl.
7
To produce the components of speech.
Actors must be able to pronounce perfectly or deliberately disabled.
8
To read aloud.

noun

1
Eggcorn of pronouns.