simpler
/ˈsɪm.pəl.ɚ/adjective
simpler is spelled S-I-M-P-L-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is simplier: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Simpler is an adjective meaning “comparative form of simple: more simple, less complicated or challenging”.
How many letters and syllables are in simpler?
| Letters | 7: S-I-M-P-L-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.8 times per million words; the 9,165th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, simplier, about 170 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell simpler?
Simpler is spelled S-I-M-P-L-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for simpler 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 simpler?
Simpler appears 6.8 times per million words in written English, the 9,165th 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 simpler?
- UK /ˈsɪm.pəl.ə/
- UK /ˈsɪm.plə/
- US /ˈsɪm.pəl.ɚ/
Simpler has 3 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-simpler.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with simpler?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as simpler (/ɪmpələɹ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: prelims.
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).
What does simpler mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
comparative form of simple: more simple, less complicated or challenging.
noun
- 1
archaicOne who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler, who is not acquainted with it under the nam
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).