ammunition
/ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/noun, verb
ammunition is spelled A-M-M-U-N-I-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is amunition: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 167 of all searches for the word. Ammunition is a noun meaning “Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion…”. The plural of ammunition is ammunitions.
How many letters and syllables are in ammunition?
| Letters | 10: A-M-M-U-N-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, amunition, about 120 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 ammunition?
Ammunition is spelled A-M-M-U-N-I-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 165 of the searches for ammunition 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 ammunition?
Ammunition appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th 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 ammunition?
- /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/
Ammunition has 4 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-ammunition.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of ammunition
- ammunitions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- ammunitioning participle, present
- ammunitioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ammunition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
- 2
obsoleteMilitary stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
ammunition bread
- 3
Arguments and information that can be used against the other party in a conflict.
verb
- 1
To supply with ammunition.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ammunition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense articles used in charging firearms:
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 ammunition come from?
From older French amunition, rebracketing of la munition (“the war supplies”) as l'amunition. Ultimately from Latin; see munition for more.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).