wardrobe

/ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/noun, verb

wardrobe is spelled W-A-R-D-R-O-B-E. The wrong spelling people search most is wardobe: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 196 of all searches for the word. Wardrobe is a noun meaning “A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes”. The plural of wardrobe is wardrobes.

How many letters and syllables are in wardrobe?

Letters	8: W-A-R-D-R-O-B-E
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	1; the most searched, wardobe, about 40 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 wardrobe?

Wardrobe is spelled W-A-R-D-R-O-B-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 195 of the searches for wardrobe in either form.

wardrobethe right spelling7,780 searches a month

wardobea missing r40 searches a month

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 wardrobe?

Wardrobe appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form in the list.

wardrobe0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce wardrobe?

UK /ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/
US /ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/

Wardrobe has 2 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-wardrobe.ogg, En-uk-wardrobe.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of wardrobe

wardrobes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
wardrobing participle, present
wardrobed participle, past

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

What does wardrobe mean?

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

noun

1
obsoleteA room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
2
A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
3
The building housing such a department.
4
obsoleteAny closet used for storing anything.
5
A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
6
The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
7
A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
8
A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.

verb

1
To act as a wardrobe department; to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
2
To order clothing online and return it for a refund after having worn it.
3
To order multiple sizes of the same clothing online and return all but the one that fits best.