campaign
/kæmˈpeɪn/noun, verb
campaign is spelled C-A-M-P-A-I-G-N. The wrong spelling people search most is campain: about 230 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Campaign is a noun meaning “A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal”. The plural of campaign is campaigns.
How many letters and syllables are in campaign?
| Letters | 8: C-A-M-P-A-I-G-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 100 times per million words; the 1,076th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, campain, about 230 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 campaign?
Campaign is spelled C-A-M-P-A-I-G-N. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for campaign 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 campaign?
Campaign appears 100 times per million words in written English, the 1,076th 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 campaign?
- /kæmˈpeɪn/
- /kəmˈpeɪn/
Campaign has 2 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-campaign.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of campaign
- campaigns plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- campaigning participle, present
- campaigned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does campaign mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
an election campaign
- 2
A player or team's efforts during a sporting season.
His campaign for Hampshire was very good.
- 3
A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.
- 4
The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
- 5
obsoleteAn open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
- 6
obsoleteAn excursion into the countryside.
verb
- 1
To take part in a campaign.
She campaigned for better social security.
- 2
To consistently ride in races for a racing season.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Campaign in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | campagne , faire campagne, mener une campagne |
| German | Einsatz, Feldzug, Heereszug, Kampagne , sich einsetzen (for: für) |
| Portuguese | campanha |
| Spanish | campaña , campañear (por), hacer campaña (por) |
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 campaign come from?
From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).