# appoint

> English word · Verb · IPA /əˈpɔɪnt/ · frequency rank #11,163

## Definitions
1. To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
2. To name (someone to a post or role).
3. To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
4. To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
5. To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
6. To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
7. To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

## Etymology
From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.

## Easily confused with
- **appointed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/appoint-vs-appointed)
- **appointee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/appoint-vs-appointee)

## Common misspellings (8)
`apoint`, `apopint`, `appiont`, `appoinnt`, `appointt`, `appoitn`, `apponit`, `papoint`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/appoint