commitment
com·mit·ment/kəˈmɪtmənt/noun
commitment is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-M-E-N-T, 3 syllables: com·mit·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is committment: about 1,330 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Commitment is a noun meaning “The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review”. The plural of commitment is commitments.
How many letters and syllables are in commitment?
| Letters | 10: C-O-M-M-I-T-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: com·mit·ment |
| In writing | 27 times per million words; the 3,422nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, committment, about 1,330 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell commitment?
Commitment is spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for commitment 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 commitment?
Commitment appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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 commitment?
- /kəˈmɪtmənt/
- Canada /kəˈmɪtmɪnt/
Commitment has 3 syllables, split com·mit·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-commitment.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of commitment
- commitments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does commitment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
- 2
Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
- 3
Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially
- 4
Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
- 5
Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
- 6
The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- 7
Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
- 8
State of being pledged or engaged.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Commitment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Einsatz, Engagement, Zusage , Verbindlichkeit, Obligo, Verpflichtung |
| Portuguese | compromisso, cometimento , promessa |
| Spanish | compromiso , promesa, acuerdo |
| French | engagement |
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 commitment come from?
From commit + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).