amendment
/əˈmɛndmənt/noun
amendment is spelled A-M-E-N-D-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is ammendment: about 570 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Amendment is a noun meaning “An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting…”. The plural of amendment is amendments.
How many letters and syllables are in amendment?
| Letters | 9: A-M-E-N-D-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, ammendment, about 570 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell amendment?
Amendment is spelled A-M-E-N-D-M-E-N-T. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for amendment 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 amendment?
Amendment appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd 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 amendment?
- /əˈmɛndmənt/
Amendment 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-amendment.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of amendment
- amendments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amendment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
- 2
In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
- 3
Correction of an error in a writ or process.
- 4
USAn addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
- 5
That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
a soil amendment
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate amendment?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of amendment: amdt, amend, amend..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amendment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | amendement, avenant |
| German | Änderung, Gesetzesänderung, Novelle , Abänderung, Nachbesserung, Verbesserung |
| Portuguese | emenda |
| Spanish | enmienda, enmendadura, enmendamiento, emienda |
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 amendment come from?
From French amendement, from Late Latin amendamentum, equivalent to amend + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).