acclimate
/ˈæk.lɪ.meɪt/verb
acclimate is spelled A-C-C-L-I-M-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is acclamate: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Acclimate is a verb meaning “To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize”.
How many letters and syllables are in acclimate?
| Letters | 9: A-C-C-L-I-M-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 64,400th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acclamate, about 70 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 acclimate?
Acclimate is spelled A-C-C-L-I-M-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for acclimate 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 acclimate?
Acclimate appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 64,400th 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 acclimate?
- /ˈæk.lɪ.meɪt/
Acclimate 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-acclimate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of acclimate
- acclimates present, singular, he/she/it
- acclimating participle, present
- acclimated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acclimate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
USTo habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
- 2
USTo adjust to a new environment; not necessarily a wild, natural, earthy one.
- 3
USTo become accustomed to a new climate or environment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acclimate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense (transitive, mainly US) to habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | acclimater |
| German | akklimatisieren |
| Portuguese | aclimatizar |
| Spanish | aclimatar |
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.