accomplished
/əˈkɑm.plɪʃt/adjective, verb
accomplished is spelled A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is acomplished: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Accomplished is an adjective meaning “Completed; effected; established”.
How many letters and syllables are in accomplished?
| Letters | 12: A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acomplished, 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 accomplished?
Accomplished is spelled A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for accomplished 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 accomplished?
Accomplished appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th 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 accomplished?
- US /əˈkɑm.plɪʃt/
- UK /əˈkʌm.plɪʃt/
- UK /əˈkɒm.plɪʃt/
Accomplished 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-accomplished.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of accomplished
- more accomplished comparative
- most accomplished superlative
- accomplisht
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accomplished mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Completed; effected; established.
an accomplished fact
- 2
Having many accomplishments, often as a result of study or training.
an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain
- 3
Showing skill and artistry.
an accomplished first novel
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of accomplish
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accomplished in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accompli |
| German | erreicht, realisiert, bewerkstelligt, vollendet , fähig |
| Portuguese | realizado , bem-sucedido , genial |
| Spanish | logrado, realizado, cumplido, consumado |
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.