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argument

ar·gu·ment/ˈɑɹɡjʊmənt/noun

argument is spelled A-R-G-U-M-E-N-T, 3 syllables: ar·gu·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is arguement: about 500 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Argument is a noun meaning “A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason”. The plural of argument is arguments.

How many letters and syllables are in argument?

Letters8: A-R-G-U-M-E-N-T
Syllables3: ar·gu·ment
In writing44 times per million words; the 2,290th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, arguement, about 500 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 argument?

Argument is spelled A-R-G-U-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for argument in either form.

argumentthe right spelling2,390 searches a month
arguementan extra e500 searches a month

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 argument?

Argument appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th 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 argument?

  • UK /ˈɑːɡjʊmənt/
  • US /ˈɑɹɡjʊmənt/
  • US /-ɡju-/

Argument has 3 syllables, split ar·gu·ment in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-argument.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-argument.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of argument

  • arguments plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • argumenting participle, present
  • argumented participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does argument mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.

  2. 2

    A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.

  3. 3

    A process of reasoning; argumentation.

  4. 4

    An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.

  5. 5

    A verbal dispute; a quarrel.

    The neighbours got into an argument about the branches of the trees that extended over the fence.

  6. 6

    Any dispute, altercation, or collision.

    Steve got in a physical argument with his neighbor and came away with a black eye.

  7. 7

    Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.

  8. 8

    The independent variable of a function.

verb

  1. 1

    nonstandardobsoleteTo put forward as an argument; to argue.

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo adduce evidence, to provide proof.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Argument in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchargument (1. fact or statement used to support a…), argumentation (2. process of reasoning), querelle (4. verbal dispute; a quarrel)
GermanArgument (1. fact or statement used to support a…), Argumentation (2. process of reasoning), Diskussion, Streit, Streitgespräch (4. verbal dispute; a quarrel)
Portugueseargumento (1. fact or statement used to support a…), argumentação (2. process of reasoning), discussão (4. verbal dispute; a quarrel)
Spanishargumento (1. fact or statement used to support a…), discusión, bronca, riña, argüende, trabacuenta (4. verbal dispute; a quarrel)

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 argument come from?

From Middle English argument, from Anglo-Norman and Old French arguement, from Latin argumentum. The English word is analysable as argue + -ment. Doublet of argumentum. Displaced native Old English racu and ġeflit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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