achievements
/əˈt͡ʃiːvmənts/
Detailed reference entry for the English word "achievements", 12-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "achievements" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "achievements" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“achievements” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #6,431 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,431
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — plural of achievement
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 | achievements |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈt͡ʃiːvmənts/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #6,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “achievements” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for achievements is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈt͡ʃiːvmənts/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,431 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of achievement".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for achievements, with forms such as "acchievements", "acheivements", and "achhievements". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "achievement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is achievements, spelled A-C-H-I-E-V-E-M-E-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1plural of achievement
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acchievements,acheivements,achhievements,achieevments,achieveemnts,achievemennts,achievemenst,achievementss,achievementts,achievemetns,achievemments,achievemnets,achievmeents,achievvements,achiveements,acihevements,ahcievements,cahievements
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of achievements - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "achievements"
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 “achievements”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-C-H-I-E-V-E-M-E-N-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /əˈt͡ʃiːvmənts/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “achievement” - see the side-by-side comparison. achievements vs achievement
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Nearby English words
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