various
/ˈvɛəɹi.əs/determiner, adjective
various is spelled V-A-R-I-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is varius: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Various is a determiner meaning “More than one (of an indeterminate set of things)”.
How many letters and syllables are in various?
| Letters | 7: V-A-R-I-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 132 times per million words; the 792nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, varius, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell various?
Various is spelled V-A-R-I-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for various 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 various?
Various appears 132 times per million words in written English, the 792nd 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 various?
- UK /ˈvɛəɹi.əs/
- US /ˈvɛəɹi.əs/
- US /ˈvæɹi.əs/
Various 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-ne-various.ogg, En-us-ne-1-various.ogg, En-us-various.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with various?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as various from its last stressed vowel (/ɛəɹiəs/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: saviour.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does various mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
determiner
- 1
More than one (of an indeterminate set of things).
Various books have been taken.
adjective
- 1
Having a broad range (of different elements).
The reasons are various.
- 2
datedThat varies or differs from others; variant; different, sundry.
a various reading of a Biblical text
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate various?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of various: var..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Various in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an eclectic range of:
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 various come from?
Borrowed from Middle French varieux, from Latin varius (“manifold, diverse, various, parti-colored, variegated, also changing, changeable, fickle, etc.”). By surface analysis, vary + -ous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).