ailment
ail·ment/ˈeɪ̯lmənt/noun
ailment is spelled A-I-L-M-E-N-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables (ail·ment). It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ailment means “Something which ails one; a disease; sickness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ailment is ailments.
How many letters and syllables are in ailment?
| Letters | 7: A-I-L-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ail·ment |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 29,649th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is ailment?
Ailment appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th 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 ailment?
- /ˈeɪ̯lmənt/
- [ˈeɪ̯lmənt] ~ [ˈeɪ̯lmn̩t]
Ailment has 2 syllables, split ail·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-ailment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ailment?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ailment.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: aliment.
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 ailment
- ailments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ailment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
Near-synonym: complaint (contextually synonymous)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ailment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense something which ails one; a disease; sickness:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | maladie |
| German | Leiden |
| Portuguese | enfermidade |
| Spanish | dolencia, enfermedad, achaque, alifafe, dolama |
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 ailment come from?
From ail + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).