acquisition
/ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/noun
acquisition is spelled A-C-Q-U-I-S-I-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is aquisition: about 910 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Acquisition is a noun meaning “The act or process of acquiring”. The plural of acquisition is acquisitions.
How many letters and syllables are in acquisition?
| Letters | 11: A-C-Q-U-I-S-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, aquisition, about 910 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 acquisition?
Acquisition is spelled A-C-Q-U-I-S-I-T-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for acquisition 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 acquisition?
Acquisition appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th 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 acquisition?
- UK /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/
- US /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/
- US /ˌæk.wəˈzɪʃ.ən/
Acquisition has 4 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-acquisition.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-acquisition.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with acquisition?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as acquisition from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):
- position
- competition
- opposition
- permission
- composition
- coalition
- physician
- politician
- admission
- nutrition
- expedition
- ambition
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 acquisition
- acquisitions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acquisition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or process of acquiring.
The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.
- 2
The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
That graphite tennis racquet is quite an acquisition.
- 3
The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acquisition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | acquisition |
| German | Erwerb, Aneignung , Anschaffung |
| Portuguese | aquisição |
| Spanish | adquisición |
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.
Where does acquisition come from?
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisītiō, from acquīrō, acquīrere; equivalent to acquire + -ition.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).