account
ac·count/əˈkaʊnt/noun, verb
account is spelled A-C-C-O-U-N-T, 2 syllables: ac·count. The wrong spelling people search most is acount: about 340 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 115 of all searches for the word. Account is a noun meaning “A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and…”. The plural of account is accounts.
How many letters and syllables are in account?
| Letters | 7: A-C-C-O-U-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ac·count |
| In writing | 162 times per million words; the 625th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, acount, about 340 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell account?
Account is spelled A-C-C-O-U-N-T. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 61 of the searches for account 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 account?
Account appears 162 times per million words in written English, the 625th 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 account?
- US /əˈkaʊnt/
Account has 2 syllables, split ac·count in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-account.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with account?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as account from its last stressed vowel (/aʊnt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of account
- accounts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- accounting participle, present
- accounted participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does account mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
The firm failed to file its accounts on time.
- 2
A bank account.
The money was refunded to her account.
- 3
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
- 4
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
Don't trouble yourself on my account.
- 5
A record of events; a relation or narrative.
An account of a battle.
- 6
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- 7
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- 8
Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
- 2
archaicTo give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
- 3
To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
I'd account it a privilege to serve you.
- 4
To consider that.
- 5
To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
- 6
To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
We must account for the use of our opportunities.
- 7
To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
Idleness accounts for poverty.
- 8
To establish the location for someone.
After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate account?
Wiktionary records 6 abbreviations of account: A/C, a., a/c, acc, acc., acct.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Account in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | compte , récit , rapport |
| German | Konto , Begründung , Bericht , Rechenschaft |
| Portuguese | conta , relatório , relato , soma |
| Spanish | cuenta , reporte, explicación, explicaciones, exégesis, exegesis |
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.