accomplishment
/əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/noun
accomplishment is spelled A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is acomplishment: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Accomplishment is a noun meaning “The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment”. The plural of accomplishment is accomplishments.
How many letters and syllables are in accomplishment?
| Letters | 14: A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.9 times per million words; the 11,373rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acomplishment, about 80 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 accomplishment?
Accomplishment is spelled A-C-C-O-M-P-L-I-S-H-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for accomplishment 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 accomplishment?
Accomplishment appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd 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 accomplishment?
- UK /əˈkɒm.plɪʃ.mənt/
- UK /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/
- US /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/
Accomplishment has 4 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-accomplishment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of accomplishment
- accomplishments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accomplishment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.
the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc
- 2
That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
- 3
Something accomplished; an achievement.
Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.
- 4
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accomplishment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accomplissement |
| German | Ausführung f Durchführung, Vollendung, Erfüllung , Fertigkeit, Errungenschaft, Fähigkeit |
| Portuguese | realização |
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.