apartment
/əˈpɑːt.mənt/
"apartment" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“apartment” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #2,242 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,242
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apartment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈpɑːt.mənt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “apartment” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for apartment is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈpɑːt.mənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,242 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for apartment, with forms such as "aaprtment", "aparmtent", and "aparrtment". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart. The correct English form is apartment, spelled A-P-A-R-T-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
- 2A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
- 3A room within a house.
- 4A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.
- 5A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.
Etymology
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aaprtment,aparmtent,aparrtment,apartemnt,apartmennt,apartmentt,apartmetn,apartmment,apartmnet,aparttment,apatrment,appartment,apratment,paartment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apartment - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “apartment”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-P-A-R-T-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /əˈpɑːt.mənt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.