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splendour

/ˈsplɛndɚ/noun

splendour is spelled S-P-L-E-N-D-O-U-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, splendour means “British, Canadian, Ireland, South Africa, Australian, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of splendour is splendours.

How many letters and syllables are in splendour?

Letters9: S-P-L-E-N-D-O-U-R
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 31,549th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is splendour?

Splendour appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th 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 splendour?

  • US /ˈsplɛndɚ/
  • UK /ˈsplɛndə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-splendour.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with splendour?

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

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 splendour

  • splendours plural

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

What does splendour mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    British, Canadian, Ireland, South Africa, Australian, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor.

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

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