entertainment
en·ter·tain·ment/ˌɛn.(t)ɚˈteɪn.mənt/noun
entertainment is spelled E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T, 4 syllables: en·ter·tain·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is enteratinment: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,111 of all searches for the word. Entertainment is a noun meaning “An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no…”. The plural of entertainment is entertainments.
How many letters and syllables are in entertainment?
| Letters | 13: E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: en·ter·tain·ment |
| In writing | 40 times per million words; the 2,487th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, enteratinment, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell entertainment?
Entertainment is spelled E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 1,139 of the searches for entertainment 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 entertainment?
Entertainment appears 40 times per million words in written English, the 2,487th 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 entertainment?
- UK /ˌɛn.təˈteɪn.mənt/
- US /ˌɛn.(t)ɚˈteɪn.mənt/
Entertainment has 4 syllables, split en·ter·tain·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-entertainment.ogg, En-us-entertainment1.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with entertainment?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as entertainment from its last stressed vowel (/eɪnmənt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of entertainment
- entertainments plural
- entretainment
- intertainment
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does entertainment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.
- 2
A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
- 3
obsoleteMaintenance or support.
- 4
obsoleteAn admission into service; a service.
- 5
obsoleteThe payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
- 6
obsoleteA reception; a (provision of) food to guests or travellers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate entertainment?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of entertainment: Entm't.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Entertainment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | divertissement |
| German | Unterhaltung |
| Portuguese | entretenimento |
| Spanish | entretenimiento, trebejo, entretención , espectáculo |
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 entertainment come from?
From Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement; see entertain. Morphologically entertain + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).