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endorsement

/ɪnˈdɔːɹs.mənt/noun

endorsement is spelled E-N-D-O-R-S-E-M-E-N-T: 11 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, endorsement means “The act or quality of endorsing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of endorsement is endorsements.

How many letters and syllables are in endorsement?

Letters11: E-N-D-O-R-S-E-M-E-N-T
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.6 times per million words; the 10,358th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is endorsement?

Endorsement appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th 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 endorsement?

  • /ɪnˈdɔːɹs.mənt/

Endorsement 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)-Vininn126-endorsement.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of endorsement

  • endorsements plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does endorsement mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act or quality of endorsing

    The association announced its endorsement of the policy.

  2. 2

    An amendment or annotation to an insurance contract or other official document (such as a driving licence).

    Mr. Jones paid extra for the flood damage endorsement on his house insurance.

  3. 3

    An instructor's signed acknowledgement of time practising specific flying skills.

    Once she obtained the endorsement of her night flying hours, Joanna was approved to take the pilot's examination.

  4. 4

    Permission to carry out a specific skill or application in a field in which the practitioner already has a general licence.

    Wanted: Accredited teacher with Grade 12 mathematics endorsement.

  5. 5

    Sponsorship, in means of money, by a company, business or enterprise.

    After the Olympics, he was hoping to get an endorsement deal.

  6. 6

    Support from an important, renowned figure of a media (celebrity, politics, sports, etc.), to get back up.

    I'm not sure whether an endorsement from Donald Trump will help or hurt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Endorsement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanBestätigung, Befürwortung, Unterstützung (the act or quality of endorsing), Zusatz, Nachtrag, Anhang (an amendment or annotation to an insurance…)
Portugueserecomendação, aprovação, apoio, aval (the act or quality of endorsing), averbamento, averbação (an amendment or annotation to an insurance…)
Spanishendoso, endorso (the act or quality of endorsing), apoyo, endorsamiento (support from an important, renowned figure of a…)
Frenchsoutien (support from an important, renowned figure of a…), endorsement, sponsoring (sponsorship, in means of money, by a company…)

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 endorsement come from?

From endorse + -ment.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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