company
com·pany/ˈkʌmpəni/noun
company is spelled C-O-M-P-A-N-Y, 2 syllables: com·pany. The wrong spelling people search most is comapny: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 238 of all searches for the word. Company is a noun meaning “A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose”. The plural of company is companies.
How many letters and syllables are in company?
| Letters | 7: C-O-M-P-A-N-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: com·pany |
| In writing | 398 times per million words; the 227th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, comapny, about 70 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 company?
Company is spelled C-O-M-P-A-N-Y. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 153 of the searches for company 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 company?
Company appears 398 times per million words in written English, the 227th 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 company?
- UK /ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/
- /ˈkɒmp(ə)ni/
- US /ˈkʌmpəni/
Company has 2 syllables, split com·pany in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-company.ogg, En-us-company.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of company
- companies plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- companying participle, present
- companied participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does company mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.
a company of knights
- 2
A group of performing artists who put on shows together.
a company of actors
- 3
The crew of a ship.
a ship's company
- 4
A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
the boys in Company C
- 5
A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
It took six companies to put out the fire.
- 6
informalAn intelligence service.
As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
- 7
informalA specific aircraft or its airline, usually used in air traffic communications to refer conveniently to another aircraft operated by the same airline.
- 8
A small group of birds or animals.
verb
- 1
archaicTo accompany, keep company with.
- 2
archaicTo associate.
- 3
obsoleteTo be a lively, cheerful companion.
- 4
obsoleteTo have sexual intercourse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate company?
Wiktionary records 6 abbreviations of company: CO., Co, Co., co, co., com.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Company in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | société, entreprise, firme, compagnie |
| German | Gesellschaft, Firma, Unternehmen , Besuch, Besucher |
| Portuguese | companhia , visita , empresa |
| Spanish | empresa, compañía , visitantes , firma , compaña |
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 company come from?
From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion. Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).