# account

> English word · Noun · IPA /əˈkaʊnt/ · frequency rank #616

## Definitions
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.
2. A bank account.
3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
5. A record of events; a relation or narrative.
6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
9. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
10. Profit; 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”).

## Easily confused with
- **amount** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/account-vs-amount)
- **accounts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/account-vs-accounts)
- **accounted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/account-vs-accounted)
- **accent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/accent-vs-account)

## Common misspellings (8)
`acconut`, `accounnt`, `accountt`, `accoutn`, `accuont`, `acocunt`, `acount`, `cacount`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/account