accept
ac·cept/əkˈsɛpt/verb, noun
accept is spelled A-C-C-E-P-T, 2 syllables: ac·cept. The wrong spelling people search most is acept: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Accept is a verb meaning “To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval”.
How many letters and syllables are in accept?
| Letters | 6: A-C-C-E-P-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ac·cept |
| In writing | 71 times per million words; the 1,486th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acept, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell accept?
Accept is spelled A-C-C-E-P-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for accept 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 accept?
Accept appears 71 times per million words in written English, the 1,486th 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 accept?
- UK /əkˈsɛpt/
- UK /ækˈsɛpt/
- US /əkˈsɛpt/
Accept has 2 syllables, split ac·cept in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-accept.ogg, En-us-accept.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with accept
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with accept?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as accept from its last stressed vowel (/ɛpt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of accept
- accepts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- accepting participle, present
- accepted participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
- more accept comparative
- most accept superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accept mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- 2
To admit to a place or a group.
The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
- 3
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
I accept the notion that Christ lived.
- 4
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- 5
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
- 6
To endure patiently.
I accept my punishment.
- 7
To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
We need to accept the fact that restaurants are closed due to COVID-19 and that no amount of wishing or screaming will make them reopen any sooner.
- 8
To agree to pay.
noun
- 1
Something that is accepted.
adjective
- 1
obsoleteAccepted.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accept in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accepter , accepter (de) , prendre sur soi, endurer patiemment , accepter de payer , accueillir |
| German | annehmen, abnehmen, akzeptieren , aufnehmen, zulassen |
| Portuguese | aceitar |
| Spanish | aceptar, adir, acceptar |
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 accept come from?
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).