raucous
/ˈɹɔkəs/adjective
raucous is spelled R-A-U-C-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is racaus: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 70 of all searches for the word. Raucous is an adjective meaning “Harsh and rough-sounding”.
How many letters and syllables are in raucous?
| Letters | 7: R-A-U-C-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,176th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, racaus, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 raucous?
Raucous is spelled R-A-U-C-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 70 of the searches for raucous 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 raucous?
Raucous appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,176th 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 raucous?
- UK /ˈɹɔːkəs/
- US /ˈɹɔkəs/
- /ˈɹɑkəs/
Raucous has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-raucous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with raucous?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as raucous from its last stressed vowel (/ɔkəs/):
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 raucous
- more raucous comparative
- most raucous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does raucous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Harsh and rough-sounding.
At night, raucous ruckus took place in the swamp.
- 2
Disorderly and boisterous.
Acts of vandalism were committed by a raucous gang of drunkards.
- 3
Loud and annoying.
The new neighbors had a raucous ruction in the small hours last night.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Raucous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 raucous come from?
Borrowed from Latin raucus (“hoarse, husky, raucous”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).