accomplish
ac·com·plish/əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/verb
accomplish is spelled A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H, 3 syllables: ac·com·plish. The wrong spelling people search most is acomplish: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Accomplish is a verb meaning “To finish successfully”.
How many letters and syllables are in accomplish?
| Letters | 10: A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ac·com·plish |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,565th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acomplish, about 140 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 accomplish?
Accomplish is spelled A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for accomplish 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 accomplish?
Accomplish appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th 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 accomplish?
- UK /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/
- UK /əˈkɒm.plɪʃ/
- US /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
Accomplish has 3 syllables, split ac·com·plish in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-accomplish.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of accomplish
- accomplishes present, singular, he/she/it
- accomplishing participle, present
- accomplished participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accomplish mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To finish successfully.
- 2
To complete, as time or distance.
- 3
To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
- 4
archaicTo equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
- 5
obsoleteTo gain; to obtain.
- 6
To fill out a form.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accomplish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accomplir |
| German | vollenden vollziehen, ausführen , vollenden |
| Portuguese | conseguir , concretizar |
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 accomplish come from?
From Middle English accomplisshen, acomplissen, from Old French acompliss-, extended stem of acomplir (Modern French accomplir), from Vulgar Latin *(ac)complīre, from Latin complēre (“fill up/out, complete”, whence English complete). First attested in the late 14th century.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).