appointment
ap·point·ment/əˈpɔɪnt.mɛnt/noun
appointment is spelled A-P-P-O-I-N-T-M-E-N-T, 3 syllables: ap·point·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is appoinment: about 800 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 154 of all searches for the word. Appointment is a noun meaning “The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust”. The plural of appointment is appointments.
How many letters and syllables are in appointment?
| Letters | 11: A-P-P-O-I-N-T-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ap·point·ment |
| In writing | 31 times per million words; the 3,052nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, appoinment, about 800 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 appointment?
Appointment is spelled A-P-P-O-I-N-T-M-E-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 79 of the searches for appointment 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 appointment?
Appointment appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd 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 appointment?
- US /əˈpɔɪnt.mɛnt/
- /əˈpɔɪnt.mɪnt/
- [əˈpʰɔɪ̯nʔmɪnʔ]
Appointment has 3 syllables, split ap·point·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-appointment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of appointment
- appointments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does appointment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust.
His appointment as treasurer was deemed suitable.
- 2
The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed.
the appointment of treasurer
- 3
A stipulation; an agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
- 4
An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
They made an appointment to meet at six.
- 5
A decree; a direction; an established order or constitution.
to submit to the divine appointments
- 6
The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
- 7
The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
- 8
Equipment, furniture.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate appointment?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of appointment: appmt, appt, appt..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Appointment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nomination , rendez-vous, rencard |
| German | Ernennung, Berufung , Termin, Verabredung |
| Portuguese | nomeação, designação , consulta , compromisso |
| Spanish | nombramiento , apoinmen, apuntamento , compromiso , cita |
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 appointment come from?
From Middle English appoyntement, apoyntement, from Old French appointement, equivalent to appoint + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).