sync
/sɪŋk/noun, verb
sync is spelled S-Y-N-C: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “sync vs synch” about 2,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, sync means “Clipping of synchronization or synchrony” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sync is syncs.
How many letters and syllables are in sync?
| Letters | 4: S-Y-N-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like |
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 sync?
Sync appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 sync?
- /sɪŋk/
Sync has one syllable (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-sync.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sync
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: cinque, sink (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: synch.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of sync
- syncs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- synch
- syncing participle, present
- synching participle, present
- synced participle, past
- synched participle, past
- sunk participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sync mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalClipping of synchronization or synchrony.
- 2
informalHarmony.
- 3
informalA music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
verb
- 1
informalTo synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.
Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.
- 2
informalTo flush all pending I/O operations to disk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sync come from?
Clipping of synchronization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).