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enrollment

/ənˈɹol.mənt/noun

enrollment is a noun meaning “The act of enrolling or the state of being enrolled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-R-O-L-L-M-E-N-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears 8.3 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of enrollment is enrollments.

What does enrollment mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The act of enrolling or the state of being enrolled.

  2. 2

    The people enrolled, considered as a group.

  3. 3

    The number of people enrolled.

  4. 4

    The record of such enrolling; registration.

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

How do you pronounce enrollment?

  • UK /ənˈɹəʊl.mənt/
  • UK /ɪnˈɹəʊl.mənt/
  • US /ənˈɹol.mənt/

Enrollment 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)-Vealhurl-enrolment.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of enrollment

  • enrollments plural
  • enrolment
  • inrolment
  • inrollment

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

How common is enrollment?

Enrollment appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th 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).

Enrollment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchenrôlement (act of enrolling or state of being enrolled), enrôlé, enrôlés, enrôlée, enrôlées (people enrolled)
GermanEinschreibung (für Bildungseinrichtung), Immatrikulation, Anmeldung (für Bildungseinrichtung) (act of enrolling or state of being enrolled), Matrikel (people enrolled), Immatrikulationszahl (number of people enrolled)
Portuguesematrícula, inscrição (act of enrolling or state of being enrolled)
Spanishinscripción, enrolamiento (act of enrolling or state of being enrolled), inscriptos (people enrolled), escolarización (registration)

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 enrollment come from?

From Middle French enrollement. See enroll + -ment.

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