bombardment
/bɑmbɑɹdmənt/noun
bombardment is spelled B-O-M-B-A-R-D-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is bombarment: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Bombardment is a noun meaning “The act of bombing, especially towns or cities”. The plural of bombardment is bombardments.
How many letters and syllables are in bombardment?
| Letters | 11: B-O-M-B-A-R-D-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.2 times per million words; the 18,537th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, bombarment, 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 bombardment?
Bombardment is spelled B-O-M-B-A-R-D-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for bombardment 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 bombardment?
Bombardment appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,537th 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 bombardment?
- US /bɑmbɑɹdmənt/
- US /bəm-/
Bombardment 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bombardment.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bombardment
- bombardments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bombardment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of bombing, especially towns or cities.
- 2
Heavy artillery fire.
- 3
The incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance.
- 4
An onslaught of criticism etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bombardment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bombardement |
| German | Bombardierung, Bombardement , Beschuss |
| Portuguese | bombardeamento, bombardeio |
| Spanish | bombardeo |
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 bombardment come from?
From bombard + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).