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bargain

bar·gain/ˈbɑːɹɡən/noun, verb

bargain is spelled B-A-R-G-A-I-N, 2 syllables: bar·gain. The wrong spelling people search most is bargin: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Bargain is a noun meaning “An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds themself…”. The plural of bargain is bargains.

How many letters and syllables are in bargain?

Letters7: B-A-R-G-A-I-N
Syllables2: bar·gain
In writing8.9 times per million words; the 7,672nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, bargin, about 210 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell bargain?

Bargain is spelled B-A-R-G-A-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for bargain in either form.

bargainthe right spelling1,840 searches a month
bargina missing a210 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 bargain?

Bargain appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd 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 bargain?

  • UK /ˈbɑːɡən/
  • UK /-ɡɪn/
  • US /ˈbɑːɹɡən/

Bargain has 2 syllables, split bar·gain in writing.

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

What rhymes with bargain?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bargain from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹɡən/):

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 bargain

  • bargains plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • bargaining participle, present
  • bargained participle, past

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

What does bargain mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds themself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds themself to receive the property and pay the consideration.

  2. 2

    An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.

  3. 3

    An item purchased for significantly less than the usual, or recommended, price

  4. 4

    A gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase.

    to buy (something) at a bargain

  5. 5

    The thing stipulated or purchased.

verb

  1. 1

    To make a bargain; to make a deal or contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate; to haggle.

    They had to bargain for a few minutes to get a decent price for the rug.

  2. 2

    To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade

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

Bargain in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchaccord (agreement or contract concerning sale of…), affaire, bonne affaire (item bought at a low price), marchander, s'accorder, s'arranger (intransitive: to make a bargain)
GermanAngebot (agreement or contract concerning sale of…), Schnäppchen (item bought at a low price), Vereinbarung, Abmachung (agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge), Anschaffung, Zukauf (thing stipulated or purchased)
Portuguesetransação, barganha (agreement or contract concerning sale of…), pechincha (item bought at a low price), barganhar (intransitive: to make a bargain)
Spanishganga, bicoca (agreement or contract concerning sale of…), chollo, momio (item bought at a low price), recatear, regatear (transitive: to trade)

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 bargain come from?

From Middle English bargaynen (“to bargain, make a pledge for sale”), from Old French bargaigner (“to bargain”), from Frankish *borganjan (“to borrow, lend”), from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (“to borrow, lend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to protect, secure”). Akin to Old High German boragēn, borgēn (“to look after, care for”) (German borgen), Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge”). More at borrow. Compare French barguigner and Portuguese barganhar.

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

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