acceptance
/əkˈsɛp.təns/noun
acceptance is spelled A-C-C-E-P-T-A-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is acceptence: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 50 of all searches for the word. Acceptance is a noun meaning “The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction…”. The plural of acceptance is acceptances.
How many letters and syllables are in acceptance?
| Letters | 10: A-C-C-E-P-T-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acceptence, about 100 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 acceptance?
Acceptance is spelled A-C-C-E-P-T-A-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 50 of the searches for acceptance 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 acceptance?
Acceptance appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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 acceptance?
- US /əkˈsɛp.təns/
- Australia /əkˈsep.təns/
Acceptance has 3 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-acceptance.ogg, EN-AU_ck1_acceptance.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of acceptance
- acceptances plural
- acceptaunce
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acceptance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
- 2
An instance of that act.
- 3
Belief in something; agreement, assent.
- 4
The state of being accepted.
- 5
The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
- 6
An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
- 7
An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.
- 8
USThe act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate acceptance?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of acceptance: acpt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acceptance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | acceptation , adhésion, admission, adoption, assimilation, reconnaissance |
| German | Annahme , Vertrag |
| Portuguese | aceitação , aceite |
| Spanish | aceptación |
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.