achieve
/əˈt͡ʃiv/verb
achieve is spelled A-C-H-I-E-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is acheive: about 1,440 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Achieve is a verb meaning “To carry out or conclude (something, as a task) successfully; to accomplish”.
How many letters and syllables are in achieve?
| Letters | 7: A-C-H-I-E-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 37 times per million words; the 2,618th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, acheive, about 1,440 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell achieve?
Achieve is spelled A-C-H-I-E-V-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for achieve 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 achieve?
Achieve appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th 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 achieve?
- UK /əˈt͡ʃiːv/
- US /əˈt͡ʃiv/
Achieve has 2 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-achieve.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with achieve?
10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as achieve from its last stressed vowel (/iv/):
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 achieve
- achieves present, singular, he/she/it
- achieving participle, present
- achieved 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 achieve mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To carry out or conclude (something, as a task) successfully; to accomplish.
to achieve one’s goals
- 2
To gain or obtain (a desired objective, result, etc.) through effort or skill; to succeed in attaining (an objective, result, etc.); to win.
- 3
To obtain (a physical thing); to get.
- 4
obsoleteTo end or finish (something); to terminate; (specifically, military) to win (a battle or war).
- 5
To attain a goal; to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance; (generally) to make an effort; strive.
He could really achieve in school if he worked hard.
- 6
archaicFollowed by to: to attain a certain position, status, etc.
- 7
obsoleteTo come to an end; conclude, end; also, to result, to turn out; or (uncommon) to be affected by fate in a certain way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Achieve in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accomplir, réaliser |
| German | erreichen, realisieren, schaffen , erlangen |
| Portuguese | conseguir , ganhar |
| Spanish | conseguir, lograr |
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.