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sulphur

noun, verb

sulphur is spelled S-U-L-P-H-U-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “sulfur vs sulphur” about 1,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, sulphur means “Alternative spelling of sulfur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sulphur is sulphurs.

How many letters and syllables are in sulphur?

Letters7: S-U-L-P-H-U-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

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 common is sulphur?

Sulphur appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th 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 sulphur?

    Sulphur 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).

    Words people confuse with sulphur

    Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

    sulfur vs sulphur1,900 G

    Also written: sulfur.

    Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    Forms of sulphur

    • sulphurs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
    • sulphuring participle, present
    • sulphured participle, past

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

    What does sulphur mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      CommonwealthAlternative spelling of sulfur.

    verb

    1. 1

      CommonwealthAlternative spelling of sulfur.

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

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