account
/əˈkaʊnt/
"account" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“account” is in the everyday core of English, ranked #616 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #616
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | account |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈkaʊnt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “account” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for account is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈkaʊnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #616 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for account, with forms such as "acconut", "accounnt", and "accountt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "amount", "accounts", "accounted", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-Europ… The correct English form is account, spelled A-C-C-O-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1A 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.
- 2A bank account.
- 3A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- 4A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- 5A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- 6An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- 7Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- 8Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- 9A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
- 10Profit; advantage.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Old French conter Old French aconter Anglo-Norman acuntebor. Middle English acounte English account From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acconut,accounnt,accountt,accoutn,accuont,acocunt,acount,cacount
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of account - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “account”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-C-C-O-U-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /əˈkaʊnt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “amount” - see the side-by-side comparison. account vs amount
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.