# agreement

> English word · Noun · IPA /əˈɡɹiːmənt/ · frequency rank #1,383

## Definitions
1. An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
2. A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
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. An agreeable quality.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós
Proto-Italic *gʷrātos
Latin grātus
Latin grātumder.
Old French gré
Old French agreer
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-məntom
Latin -mentum
Old French -ment
Old French agrementbor.
Middle English agrement
English agreement
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.

## Common misspellings (13)
`agerement`, `aggreement`, `agreeemnt`, `agreemennt`, `agreementt`, `agreemetn`, `agreemment`, `agreemnet`, `agremeent`, `agrement`, `agrreement`, `argeement`, `gareement`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/agreement