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India can’t pronounce croissant, Ghibli, and women! Google reveals top 20 most mispronounced words of 2025
The research was conducted between January 1, 2025, and November 24, 2025, searching data from Google Trends for ‘How do you pronounce’ and ‘How to pronounce’.
From croissant to Ghibli to genre, the list also includes the number of searches for each mispronounced word (Representative image/Unsplash)Google search data recently revealed the top 20 most mispronounced words in India, along with the top 20 most mispronounced words by states. From croissant to Ghibli to genre, the list also includes the number of searches for each mispronounced word.
Experts at Unscramblerer.com conducted the research. According to a spokesperson, the team used Google Trends to identify the most mispronounced words and Ahrefs to determine search volume. “India’s most mispronounced words can be discovered in Google Trends by searching for terms like ‘How do you pronounce’, ‘pronunciations of’, and ‘How to pronounce’. Ahrefs shows many variations of pronunciation searches, such as ‘croissant pronunciation’ or ‘how do you pronounce jalapeno’. We added up 100 search variations of the top mispronounced terms,” the spokesperson said.
The research was conducted between January 1, 2025, and November 24, 2025, searching data from Google Trends for “How do you pronounce” and “How to pronounce”.
India’s most mispronounced words (with pronunciations)
- Croissant (206,400 searches) — kwah-son
- Ghibli (124,800 searches) — gee-blee
- Schedule (112,800 searches) — shed-yool
- Dachshund (88,800 searches) — daks-und
- Accent (94,800 searches) — AK-sent
- Poem (92,000 searches) — pow-uhm
- Women (91,200 searches) — wi-muhn
- Genre (86,400 searches) — zhon-ruh
- Audio (84,200 searches) — aw-dee-ow
- Water (84,000 searches) — waw-tuh
- Niche (81,600 searches) — neesh
- Nutella (76,800 searches) — nuh-tell-uh
- Açaí (75,600 searches) — ah-SIGH-ee
- Spaghetti (73,200 searches) — spuh-get-ee
- Flower (72,000 searches) — flau-uh
- Entrepreneur (69,600 searches) — on-truh-pruh-nuh
- Bouquet (66,000 searches) — boo-kay
- Ukulele (63,600 searches) — yoo-kuh-lay-lee
- Cacao (62,600 searches) — kuh-kow
- Ferrero Rocher (62,400 searches) — fuh-reuh-row row-chuh
India’s most mispronounced words by region (with pronunciations)
- Arunachal Pradesh – Alumni (uh-luhm-nai)
- Meghalaya – Bourgeoisie (buorzh-waa-zee)
- Mizoram – Fungi (fuhng-gee)
- Nagaland – Poem (pow-uhm)
- Manipur – Genre (zhon-ruh)
- Tripura – Women (wi-muhn)
- Tamil Nadu – Audio (aw-dee-ow)
- Sikkim – Croissant (kwah-son)
- Goa – Croissant (kwah-son)
- Puducherry – Nutella (nuh-tell-uh)
- Karnataka – Water (waw-tuh)
- Gujarat – Audio (aw-dee-ow)
- Assam – Bouquet (boo-kay)
- Maharashtra – Ghibli (gee-blee)
- Telangana – Croissant (kwah-son)
- Jharkhand – Ghibli (gee-blee)
- Andhra Pradesh – Guava (gwaa-vuh)
- Himachal Pradesh – Schedule (shed-yool)
- Bihar – Poem (pow-uhm)
- Punjab – Croissant (kwah-son)
- Uttarakhand – Poem (pow-uhm)
- Odisha – Water (waw-tuh)
- Chhattisgarh – Croissant (kwah-son)
- Madhya Pradesh – Poem (pow-uhm)
- Kerala – Porsche (paw-shuh)
- Delhi – Croissant (kwah-son)
- Haryana – Croissant (kwah-son)
- Uttar Pradesh – Water (waw-tuh)
- West Bengal – Ghibli (gee-blee)
- Daman and Diu – Johannesburg (jow-ha-nuhs-buhg)
- Rajasthan – Schedule (shed-yool)
- Chandigarh – Volkswagen (volk-swaa-gn)
- Jammu and Kashmir – Water (waw-tuh)
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