artillery
/ɑɹˈtɪləɹi/noun
artillery is spelled A-R-T-I-L-L-E-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is artillary: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Artillery is a noun meaning “Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery”. The plural of artillery is artilleries.
How many letters and syllables are in artillery?
| Letters | 9: A-R-T-I-L-L-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.1 times per million words; the 7,553rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, artillary, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell artillery?
Artillery is spelled A-R-T-I-L-L-E-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for artillery 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 artillery?
Artillery appears 9.1 times per million words in written English, the 7,553rd 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 artillery?
- UK /ɑːˈtɪləɹi/
- US /ɑɹˈtɪləɹi/
Artillery has 4 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-artillery.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of artillery
- artilleries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does artillery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
- 2
An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
- 3
Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).
- 4
archaicWeapons, especially siege engines.
- 5
IrelandUKslangOne or more guns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Artillery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | artillerie |
| German | Artillerie , Geschützwesen |
| Portuguese | artilharia |
| Spanish | artillería |
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 artillery come from?
From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie (“collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc.”), from artillier (“to equip, provide with contraptions”), alteration of atiller (“to arrange, adjust, put on clothes or, especially, pieces of armour”) (influenced by art), itself from Vulgar Latin *apticlō < **apticulō, from Latin aptō (“to make capable”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).