agreement
a·gree·ment/əˈɡɹiːmənt/noun
agreement is spelled A-G-R-E-E-M-E-N-T, 3 syllables: a·gree·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is aggreement: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 108 of all searches for the word. Agreement is a noun meaning “An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct”. The plural of agreement is agreements.
How many letters and syllables are in agreement?
| Letters | 9: A-G-R-E-E-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: a·gree·ment |
| In writing | 76 times per million words; the 1,394th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, aggreement, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell agreement?
Agreement is spelled A-G-R-E-E-M-E-N-T. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 43 of the searches for agreement 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 agreement?
Agreement appears 76 times per million words in written English, the 1,394th 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 agreement?
- /əˈɡɹiːmənt/
Agreement has 3 syllables, split a·gree·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-agreement.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of agreement
- agreements plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does agreement mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
to enter an agreement
- 2
A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
- 3
A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- 4
Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
- 5
obsoleteAn agreeable quality.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate agreement?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of agreement: agmt..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Agreement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accord, entente, pacte , contrat |
| German | Vereinbarung, Zustimmung , Einigkeit, Einvernehmen, Übereinstimmung, Einverständnis |
| Portuguese | consenso, acordo, pacto , contrato , concordância |
| Spanish | convenio, tratado, concordato, concordata, venencia |
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 agreement come from?
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).