The Pokemon Company confirms that you've probably been pronouncing one legendary Pokemon's name wrong for 20 years

A black, shiny rayquaza from the pokemon anime in a ferocious pose against a blue sky.

Pokemon Emerald is, to this day, my favorite game in the series. I love Hoenn as a region and I think the story is one of the few that actually makes any semblance of sense. And as well as the Battle Frontier, it has one of the coolest legendaries ever: Rayquaza. But it turns out, a lot of us have been saying its name wrong all these years.

The Pokemon Worlds Championships 2025 concluded this weekend, and there was a handy note shown to all attendees and tweeted by the official Pokemon account: it's pronounced ray-kway-zuh, not ray-kwah-zuh.