article
/ˈɑɹtɪkəl/noun, verb
article is spelled A-R-T-I-C-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is artical: about 340 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Article is a noun meaning “A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine…”. The plural of article is articles.
How many letters and syllables are in article?
| Letters | 7: A-R-T-I-C-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 123 times per million words; the 851st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, artical, about 340 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell article?
Article is spelled A-R-T-I-C-L-E. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for article 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 article?
Article appears 123 times per million words in written English, the 851st 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 article?
- UK /ˈɑːtɪkl̩/
- UK [ˈɑːtʰɪkʰəɫ]
- US /ˈɑɹtɪkəl/
Article 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-article.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with article?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as article (/ɑɹtɪkəl/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: recital.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of article
- articles plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- articling participle, present
- articled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does article mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.
- 2
An object, a member of a group or class.
an article of clothing
- 3
A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
- 4
A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
The Articles of War are a set of regulations[…]to govern the conduct of[…]military[…]forces
- 5
Ellipsis of genuine article.
- 6
A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
Each of the chelicerae is composed of two articles, forming a powerful pincer.
- 7
datedderogatoryA person; an individual.
a shrewd article
- 8
obsoleteslangA wench.
She's a prime article, a devilish good piece, a hell of a goer.
verb
- 1
To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
to article an apprentice to a mechanic
- 2
obsoleteTo accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.
[…] if the Captain of any Merchant ship under convoy shall wilfully disobey Signals […] he shall be liable to be articled against in the High Court of Admiralty […]
- 3
To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate article?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of article: art..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Article in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | article |
| German | Artikel, Bericht, Meldung , Begleiter |
| Portuguese | artigo |
| Spanish | artículo |
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 article come from?
From Middle English article, from Old French article, from Latin articulus (“a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”), from Latin artus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂értus (“that which is fit together; juncture, ordering”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join, fit (together)”). Doublet of articulus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).