admeasurement

noun

"admeasurement" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“admeasurement” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apportionment.

Corpus desk

Index EN-admeasurement · admeasurement · English

admeasurement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for admeasurement
PropertyValue
Headwordadmeasurement
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “admeasurement” in English

admeasurementranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

admeasurement is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for admeasurement, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: admeasure + -ment. The correct English form is admeasurement, spelled A-D-M-E-A-S-U-R-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Apportionment.
  2. 2
    Measurement, the act of measuring.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how admeasurement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 1781, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query I By admeasurements through nearly the whole of this last line, and supplying the unmeasured parts from good data, the Atlantic and Mississipi are found in this latitude to be 758 miles distant, equal to 13° 38′ of longitude, reckoning 55 miles and 3144 feet to the degree.
  2. Though the figures are similar, their angles, on admeasurement by a nice instrument, differ very appreciably.

Etymology

admeasure + -ment.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "admeasurement"?
"admeasurement" is spelled A-D-M-E-A-S-U-R-E-M-E-N-T.
What does "admeasurement" mean?
As a noun, "admeasurement" means: Apportionment.
What is the origin of the word "admeasurement"?
admeasure + -ment. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list