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voice

/vɔɪs/noun, verb

voice is spelled V-O-I-C-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 117 times per million words in written English, the 904th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, voice means “Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of voice is voices.

How many letters and syllables are in voice?

Letters5: V-O-I-C-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing117 times per million words; the 904th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is voice?

Voice appears 117 times per million words in written English, the 904th 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 voice?

  • US /vɔɪs/
  • /vɔjs/
  • /vɑjs/

Voice 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: En-us-voice.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with voice?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as voice from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɪs/):

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).

Forms of voice

  • voices plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • voicing participle, present
  • voiced participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does voice mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.

    The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.

  2. 2

    Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; – distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.

  3. 3

    The tone or sound emitted by an object.

  4. 4

    The faculty or power of utterance.

    to cultivate the voice

  5. 5

    That which is communicated; message; meaning.

  6. 6

    An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.

  7. 7

    archaicCommand; precept.

  8. 8

    One who speaks; a speaker.

verb

  1. 1

    To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce

    He voiced the sentiments of the nation.

  2. 2

    To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.

  3. 3

    To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of

    voice the pipes of an organ

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo vote; to elect; to appoint

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo clamor; to cry out

  6. 6

    To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.

  7. 7

    To act as a voice actor to portray a character.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate voice?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of voice: PVM, VPM.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Voice in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchvoix (sound uttered by the mouth), son (tone or sound emitted by anything), exprimer, énoncer (to give utterance or expression to), proclamer (to utter with a sonant or vocal tone), voter (to vote)
GermanStimme (sound uttered by the mouth), Gattung (grammar: particular mode of inflecting or…)
Portuguesevoz (sound uttered by the mouth), som (tone or sound emitted by anything), verbalizar, expressar (to give utterance or expression to), fonação (sound made through vibration of the vocal cords), palavra (language; words; speech; expression…)
Spanishvoz (sound uttered by the mouth), sonorizar (to utter with a sonant or vocal tone), sonoro (sound made through vibration of the vocal cords), palabra (language; words; speech; expression…), voto (opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote), ser la voz de (TV, film: to act as a voice actor)

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 voice come from?

From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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