announcement
/əˈnaʊns.mənt/noun
announcement is spelled A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is annoucement: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Announcement is a noun meaning “An act of announcing, or giving notice”. The plural of announcement is announcements.
How many letters and syllables are in announcement?
| Letters | 12: A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 20 times per million words; the 4,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, annoucement, about 270 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 announcement?
Announcement is spelled A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E-M-E-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 announcement?
Announcement appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th 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 announcement?
- US /əˈnaʊns.mənt/
Announcement 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-announcement.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of announcement
- announcements plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does announcement mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An act of announcing, or giving notice.
He raised his hand to make his announcement and said, "Excuse me everyone, I have an announcement to make."
- 2
That which conveys what is announced.
This announcement was made during the first training session.
- 3
The content which is announced.
The announcement implied that somebody needed a spare Toshiba charger.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate announcement?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of announcement: ANN.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Announcement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | annoncement , annonce |
| German | Ankündigung, Durchsage , Bekanntmachung, Mitteilung |
| Portuguese | anúncio, pronunciamento |
| Spanish | anuncio, anunciamiento , anunciación |
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 announcement come from?
From Middle French annoncement. By surface analysis, announce + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).