alignment
/əˈlaɪn.mənt/noun
alignment is spelled A-L-I-G-N-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is allignment: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Alignment is a noun meaning “An arrangement of items in a line”. The plural of alignment is alignments.
How many letters and syllables are in alignment?
| Letters | 9: A-L-I-G-N-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, allignment, about 270 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 alignment?
Alignment is spelled A-L-I-G-N-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for alignment 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 alignment?
Alignment appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 alignment?
- US /əˈlaɪn.mənt/
- Australia /əˈlɑen.mənt/
- /əˈlaɪn.mənt/
Alignment has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-alignment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with alignment?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as alignment (/aɪnmənt/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: lamenting.
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 alignment
- alignments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does alignment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An arrangement of items in a line.
- 2
The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
- 3
An alliance of factions.
- 4
The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards.
the alignment problem
- 5
One of a set number of moral positions or philosophies a character can take.
an alignment chart
- 6
The conjunction of two celestial objects.
- 7
The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
- 8
A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Alignment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | alignement , ajustage , alliance , conjonction , itinéraire linéaire |
| German | Ausrichtung, Aufreihung, Aneinanderreihung , Abgleich, Justierung |
| Portuguese | alinhamento , aliança |
| Spanish | alineación, alineamiento |
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 alignment come from?
From French alignement, by surface analysis, align + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).