testimony
/ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/noun
testimony is spelled T-E-S-T-I-M-O-N-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is testomony: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 156 of all searches for the word. Testimony is a noun meaning “Statements made by a witness in court”. The plural of testimony is testimonies.
How many letters and syllables are in testimony?
| Letters | 9: T-E-S-T-I-M-O-N-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,407th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, testomony, about 20 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 testimony?
Testimony is spelled T-E-S-T-I-M-O-N-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 157 of the searches for testimony 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 testimony?
Testimony appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th 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 testimony?
- US /ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/
- UK /ˈtɛstɪməni/
Testimony has 4 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-testimony.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of testimony
- testimonies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does testimony mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Statements made by a witness in court.
- 2
An account of first-hand experience.
- 3
In a church service (or religious service), a personal account, such as one's conversion, testimony of faith, or life testimony.
- 4
Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
This new win is testimony to the tactical skill of their coach.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Testimony in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | témoignage |
| German | Zeugnis, Zeugenaussage, Aussage, Testimonium , Bezeugung, Zeugnisablegung |
| Portuguese | testemunho |
| Spanish | testimonio |
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 testimony come from?
Inherited from Middle English testimonie, from Old French testimonie, from Latin testimōnium (“testimony”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).