response
re·sponse/ɹɪˈspɑns/noun
response is spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-E, 2 syllables: re·sponse. The wrong spelling people search most is responce: about 660 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Response is a noun meaning “An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply”. The plural of response is responses.
How many letters and syllables are in response?
| Letters | 8: R-E-S-P-O-N-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: re·sponse |
| In writing | 107 times per million words; the 996th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, responce, about 660 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 response?
Response is spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for response 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 response?
Response appears 107 times per million words in written English, the 996th 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 response?
- UK /ɹɪˈspɒns/
- US /ɹɪˈspɑns/
Response has 2 syllables, split re·sponse in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-response.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with response?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as response from its last stressed vowel (/ɑns/):
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 response
- responses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does response mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
When pushed for an answer, she gave the stock response.
- 2
The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
A ready response to questions about wrongdoing
- 3
An oracular answer.
- 4
A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
- 5
A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
- 6
A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
- 7
An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
- 8
A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate response?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of response: resp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Response in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | réponse |
| German | Antwort, Entgegnung |
| Portuguese | resposta |
| Spanish | respuesta, responso , responsión |
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 response come from?
From Middle English respounse, respons, from Old French respons, respuns, responce, ultimately from the Latin respōnsum, a nominal use of the neuter form of respōnsus, the perfect passive participle of respondeō, from re (“again”) + spondeō (“promise”). Doublet of responsum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).