resound

re·sound/ɹəˈzaʊnd/verb, noun

resound is spelled R-E-S-O-U-N-D: 7 letters and 2 syllables (re·sound). It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, resound means “To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in resound?

Letters	7: R-E-S-O-U-N-D
Syllables	2: re·sound
In writing	about once in every 5 million words; the 69,055th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	around found ground sound more
Same letters	sounder

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is resound?

Resound appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form in the list.

resound0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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 resound?

UK /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/
US /ɹəˈzaʊnd/
US /ɹi-/

As a verb (“To echo or repeat (a sound)”): /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd/, /ˌɹiˈsaʊnd/.

Resound has 2 syllables, split re·sound in writing.

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

Words people confuse with resound

Also written: re-sound (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with resound?

11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as resound from its last stressed vowel (/aʊnd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: sounder.

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 resound

resounds present, singular, he/she/it, plural
resounding participle, present
resounded participle, past
re-sound

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

What does resound mean?

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

verb

1
To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
2
Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
3
To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.
4
To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
5
Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
6
Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
7
Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
8
Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
9
To echo or repeat (a sound).
10
To sound again.

noun

1
An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.
2
The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.