schedule
/ˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/noun, verb
schedule is spelled S-C-H-E-D-U-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is scedule: about 620 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 114 of all searches for the word. Schedule is a noun meaning “A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the…”. The plural of schedule is schedules.
How many letters and syllables are in schedule?
| Letters | 8: S-C-H-E-D-U-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 47 times per million words; the 2,153rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, scedule, about 620 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell schedule?
Schedule is spelled S-C-H-E-D-U-L-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 51 of the searches for schedule 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 schedule?
Schedule appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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 schedule?
- /ˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/
- /ˈskɛd͡ʒ.uːl/
- /ˈʃɛdj.uːl/
Schedule 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-uk-schedule.ogg, En-us-schedule.ogg, En-au-schedule.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of schedule
- schedules plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- scheduling participle, present
- scheduled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does schedule mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
Near-synonyms: timeline, timetable
- 2
A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
Near-synonyms: catalog, inventory, list, listing, register, registry, table
- 3
A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
schedule of tribes
- 4
USOne of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
Heroin is a Schedule I drug with a high potential for abuse.
- 5
AustraliaOne of the nine schedules of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons. Identical to the American usage above.
- 6
An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
- 7
obsoleteA slip of paper; a short note.
verb
- 1
To create a time-schedule.
- 2
To plan (an activity or event) for a specific date or time.
The next elections are scheduled on the twentieth of November.
- 3
To add (a name) to the list of those participating in an event; to reserve a place or time for.
I am scheduled for classes next month.
- 4
AustraliaTo admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.
whether or not to schedule a patient
- 5
USTo classify as a controlled substance.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of schedule, commonly used in legislation and legal documents.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate schedule?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of schedule: sched, sched., schedj.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Schedule in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Anhang (zu e. juristischen Dokument) , Zeitplan, Programm (e. Veranstaltung) , Termin, Programm , planen |
| French | planning, horaire, ordonnancement, emploi du temps , planifier, ordonnancer |
| Portuguese | agenda, cronograma, programação, horário , agendar , programar |
| Spanish | horario, itinerario, programación , programar, adiar, agendar |
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 schedule come from?
Inherited from Middle English cedule, from Middle French cedule (whence French cédule), from Old French cedule, from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (skhédē, “papyrus leaf”), from Proto-Hellenic *skʰíd͏̌d͏̌ō, from Proto-Indo-European *skid-yé-ti, from *skeyd- (“to divide, split”). Doublet of cedula and cedule. This word was historically pronounced /ˈsɛdjuːl/, /ˈsɛdʒuːl/; the pronunciations with /ʃ/ and /sk/ are due to the spelling (the latter may have been reinforced by learned influence); compare schism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).