attainment
/əˈteɪnmənt/noun
attainment is spelled A-T-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is attaintment: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 67 of all searches for the word. Attainment is a noun meaning “The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by effort or exertion”. The plural of attainment is attainments.
How many letters and syllables are in attainment?
| Letters | 10: A-T-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,835th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, attaintment, about 10 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 attainment?
Attainment is spelled A-T-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 67 of the searches for attainment 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 attainment?
Attainment appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th 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 attainment?
- /əˈteɪnmənt/
Attainment 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-attainment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of attainment
- attainments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does attainment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by effort or exertion.
My attainment of proficiency in German was due to years upon years of study.
- 2
That which is attained, or obtained by exertion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Attainment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of attaining; act of arriving at or reaching:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Erlangen, Erreichen, Erzielen, Aneignung, Verschaffung, Erzielung |
| Portuguese | conseguimento |
| Spanish | consecución, conseguimiento |
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 attainment come from?
From attain + -ment; compare Old French ataignement.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).