wouldn't
/ˈwʊdn̩t/verb
wouldn't is spelled W-O-U-L-D-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is wouldnt: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Wouldn't is a verb meaning “would not (negative auxiliary)”.
How many letters and syllables are in wouldn't?
| Letters | 7: W-O-U-L-D-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 151 times per million words; the 679th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, wouldnt, about 150 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 wouldn't?
Wouldn't is spelled W-O-U-L-D-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for wouldn't 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 wouldn't?
Wouldn't appears 151 times per million words in written English, the 679th 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 wouldn't?
- US /ˈwʊdn̩t/
- US [wʊdⁿn̩t]
- US [wʊɾənt]
Wouldn't 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-wouldn't.ogg, En-uk-wouldn't.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of wouldn't
- wudn't
- wunt
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wouldn't mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
would not (negative auxiliary)
Wouldn't you often have supper on the terrace on Sundays?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does wouldn't come from?
Contraction of would + not, equivalent to would + -n't.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).