acquit
ac·quit/əˈkwɪt/verb
acquit is spelled A-C-Q-U-I-T, 2 syllables: ac·quit. The wrong spelling people search most is aquit: about 520 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 4 in 10 of all searches for the word. Acquit is a verb meaning “To declare or find innocent or not guilty”.
How many letters and syllables are in acquit?
| Letters | 6: A-C-Q-U-I-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ac·quit |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 48,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, aquit, about 520 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 acquit?
Acquit is spelled A-C-Q-U-I-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 4 in 10 of the searches for acquit 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 acquit?
Acquit appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th 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 acquit?
- US /əˈkwɪt/
Acquit has 2 syllables, split ac·quit in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-acquit.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with acquit?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as acquit from its last stressed vowel (/ɪt/):
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 acquit
- acquits present, singular, he/she/it
- acquitting participle, present
- acquitted past, participle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acquit mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
- 2
To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.
- 3
to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge.
The jury acquitted the prisoner of the charge.
- 4
To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part.
The soldier acquitted herself well in battle.
- 5
To clear oneself.
- 6
archaicpast participle of acquit.
- 7
obsoleteTo release, to rescue, to set free.
- 8
obsoleterareTo pay for; to atone for.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acquit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | innocenter |
| German | freisprechen, für unschuldig erklären , befreien, degagieren, entbinden, entlassen |
| Portuguese | inocentar, absolver |
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 acquit come from?
From Middle English aquī̆ten (“to give in return; to pay, repay; to redeem (a pledge, security), to make good (a promise); to make amends; to relieve of an obligation; to acquit, clear of a charge; to free; to deprive of; to do one's part, acquit oneself; to act, behave (in a certain way)”), from Old French aquiter (“to act, do”) and Medieval Latin acquitāre (“to settle a debt”), from ad- (“to”) + quitare (“to free”), equivalent to a- + quit. Doublet of acquiet; also related to quit, quiet and acquiesce.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).