synagogue
syn·a·gogue/ˈsɪnəˌɡɑɡ/noun
synagogue is spelled S-Y-N-A-G-O-G-U-E, 3 syllables: syn·a·gogue. The wrong spelling people search most is synagouge: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 48 of all searches for the word. Synagogue is a noun meaning “A place of worship for Jews”. The plural of synagogue is synagogues.
How many letters and syllables are in synagogue?
| Letters | 9: S-Y-N-A-G-O-G-U-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: syn·a·gogue |
| In writing | 2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, synagouge, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell synagogue?
Synagogue is spelled S-Y-N-A-G-O-G-U-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 48 of the searches for synagogue 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 synagogue?
Synagogue appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th 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 synagogue?
- UK /ˈsɪnəɡɒɡ/
- US /ˈsɪnəˌɡɑɡ/
Synagogue has 3 syllables, split syn·a·gogue in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-synagogue.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of synagogue
- synagogues plural
- synagog US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does synagogue mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A place of worship for Jews.
- 2
A congregation of Jews for the purpose of worship or religious study.
- 3
rareAny assembly of folk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Synagogue in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Jewish place of worship:
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 synagogue come from?
Inherited from Middle English synagoge, from Old French synagoge, from Latin synagōga, from Ancient Greek σῠνᾰγωγή (sŭnăgōgḗ, “assembly, gathering”), from συνάγω (sunágō, “to gather together”), from σῠ́ν (sŭ́n, “with, together”) & ᾰ̓́γω (ắgō, “to lead”). By surface analysis, syn- + -agogue.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).