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engagement

en·gage·ment/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/noun

engagement is spelled E-N-G-A-G-E-M-E-N-T, 3 syllables: en·gage·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is engagment: about 340 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Engagement is a noun meaning “An appointment, especially to speak or perform”. The plural of engagement is engagements.

How many letters and syllables are in engagement?

Letters10: E-N-G-A-G-E-M-E-N-T
Syllables3: en·gage·ment
In writing20 times per million words; the 4,224th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, engagment, about 340 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 engagement?

Engagement is spelled E-N-G-A-G-E-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for engagement in either form.

engagementthe right spelling6,100 searches a month
engagmenta missing e340 searches a month

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 engagement?

Engagement appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th 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 engagement?

  • /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/

Engagement has 3 syllables, split en·gage·ment in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-engagement.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of engagement

  • engagements plural

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

What does engagement mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An appointment, especially to speak or perform.

    The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.

  2. 2

    Connection or attachment.

    Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.

  3. 3

    The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.

  4. 4

    The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.

    We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.

  5. 5

    In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.

    The engagement resulted in many casualties.

  6. 6

    The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.

    After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.

  7. 7

    A performance metric representing an instance where a user interacts with some content after an impression.

  8. 8

    The quantitative response to a piece of content or a service; attention.

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

Engagement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanVerpflichtung (appointment), Bindung (connection or attachment), Verlobung, Verlöbnis (period of time when marriage is planned or…), Gefecht (instance of active hostilities)
Portuguesecompromisso (appointment), noivado (period of time when marriage is planned or…), combate (instance of active hostilities)
Spanishengagement (appointment), acopladura, acoplamiento (connection or attachment), atención, participación, interacción (feeling (about human emotional state))
Frenchfiançailles, accordailles (period of time when marriage is planned or…)

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 engagement come from?

From French engagement. Equivalent to engage + -ment.

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

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