testicle
/ˈtɛstɪkəl/noun
testicle is spelled T-E-S-T-I-C-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is testical: about 510 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Testicle is a noun meaning “A testis: the male sex and endocrine gland, found in most types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex…”. The plural of testicle is testicles.
How many letters and syllables are in testicle?
| Letters | 8: T-E-S-T-I-C-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 35,748th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, testical, about 510 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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 do you spell testicle?
Testicle is spelled T-E-S-T-I-C-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for testicle 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 testicle?
Testicle appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th 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 testicle?
- /ˈtɛstɪkəl/
Testicle 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: En-us-testicle.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-testicle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of testicle
- testicles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does testicle mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A testis: the male sex and endocrine gland, found in most types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex hormones, including the steroid testosterone.
- 2
Either half of the structure that contains the testes: one side of the scrotum and its contents, considered as one object (one half of the ballsack, including its ball).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Testicle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense male sex gland:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | testicule |
| German | Hoden, Testikel |
| Portuguese | testículo, colhão |
| Spanish | testículo, cataplín, blanquillo, compañón, dídimo, turma |
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 testicle come from?
Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).