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regard

re·gard/ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/noun, verb

regard is spelled R-E-G-A-R-D, 2 syllables: re·gard. The wrong spelling people search most is reguard: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Regard is a noun meaning “A steady look, a gaze”. The plural of regard is regards.

How many letters and syllables are in regard?

Letters6: R-E-G-A-R-D
Syllables2: re·gard
In writing23 times per million words; the 3,875th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, reguard, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with
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 regard?

Regard is spelled R-E-G-A-R-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for regard in either form.

regardthe right spelling820 searches a month
reguardan extra u160 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 regard?

Regard appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th 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 regard?

  • UK /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/
  • US /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
  • Australia /ɹɪˈɡɐːd/

Regard has 2 syllables, split re·gard in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-regard.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with regard?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as regard from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: grader.

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 regard

  • regards plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • regarding participle, present
  • regarded participle, past

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

What does regard mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A steady look, a gaze.

    He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.

  2. 2

    One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.

  3. 3

    A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.

  4. 4

    The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.

    He is held in great regard in Whitehall.

  5. 5

    Filter-avoidance spelling of retard.

verb

  1. 1

    To look at; to observe.

    She regarded us warily.

  2. 2

    To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.

    I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.

  3. 3

    archaicTo take notice of, pay attention to.

  4. 4

    To face toward.

  5. 5

    To have to do with, to concern.

    That argument does not regard the question.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.

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

Regard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanRespekt, Achtung (concern for another), Bezug, Aspekt, Hinsicht (aspect; detail), Wertschätzung (the estimation in which someone of something is…)
Portugueseconsideração (concern for another), contemplar (to look at; to observe), considerar (to consider, look upon in a given way), notar (to take notice of, pay attention to), concernir, referir (to have to do with)
Spanishmiramiento, reguardo (concern for another), contemplar (to look at; to observe), considerar (to consider, look upon in a given way), tratar, concernir (to have to do with)
Frenchconsidérer, regarder (to consider, look upon in a given way), concerner (to have to do with)

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 regard come from?

From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Piecewise doublet of reward; compare also guard, ward, guardian, and so on.

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

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