employment
/ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/
"employment" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“employment” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #2,674 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,674
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | employment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “employment” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for employment is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,674 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for employment, with forms such as "emlpoyment", "emmployment", and "emplloyment". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From employ (itself from Middle French employer, from Middle French empleier, from Latin implicō (“enfold, involve, be connected with”), itself from in- + plicō (“fold”)) + -ment. The correct English form is employment, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
- 2The act of employing.
- 3The state of being employed.
- 4A purpose, a use.
- 5An activity to which one devotes time.
- 6The number or percentage of people at work.
Etymology
From employ (itself from Middle French employer, from Middle French empleier, from Latin implicō (“enfold, involve, be connected with”), itself from in- + plicō (“fold”)) + -ment.
Antonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emlpoyment,emmployment,emplloyment,emplomyent,employemnt,employmennt,employmentt,employmetn,employmment,employmnet,employyment,emplyoment,empolyment,empployment,epmloyment,meployment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of employment - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “employment”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-M-P-L-O-Y-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.