academy
acad·e·my/əˈkæd.ə.mi/noun
academy is spelled A-C-A-D-E-M-Y, 3 syllables: acad·e·my. The wrong spelling people search most is acadamy: about 3,440 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 35 of all searches for the word. Academy is a noun meaning “An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school”. The plural of academy is academies.
How many letters and syllables are in academy?
| Letters | 7: A-C-A-D-E-M-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: acad·e·my |
| In writing | 37 times per million words; the 2,618th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, acadamy, about 3,440 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 academy?
Academy is spelled A-C-A-D-E-M-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for academy 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 academy?
Academy appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th 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 academy?
- US /əˈkæd.ə.mi/
- /əˈkad.ə.me/
Academy has 3 syllables, split acad·e·my in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-academy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of academy
- academies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does academy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
- 2
A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy
- 3
A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
- 4
Academia.
- 5
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
- 6
UKA school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
- 7
The garden where Plato taught.
- 8
Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate academy?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of academy: Acad., acad, acad..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Academy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | académie |
| German | Akademie, akademische Einrichtung |
| Portuguese | academia |
| Spanish | cantera , academia |
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 academy come from?
From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).