enthusiasm
/ɪnˈθuziæzəm/noun
enthusiasm is spelled E-N-T-H-U-S-I-A-S-M. The wrong spelling people search most is enthusiam: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Enthusiasm is a noun meaning “An intensity of feeling; an excited interest or eagerness”. The plural of enthusiasm is enthusiasms.
How many letters and syllables are in enthusiasm?
| Letters | 10: E-N-T-H-U-S-I-A-S-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, enthusiam, about 150 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 enthusiasm?
Enthusiasm is spelled E-N-T-H-U-S-I-A-S-M. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for enthusiasm 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 enthusiasm?
Enthusiasm appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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 enthusiasm?
- /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/
- /ɪnˈθjuːziæzm̩/
- /-θɪu̯-/
Enthusiasm has 5 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: En-uk-enthusiasm.ogg, En-us-enthusiasm.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of enthusiasm
- enthusiasms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does enthusiasm mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An intensity of feeling; an excited interest or eagerness.
Try to curb your enthusiasm.
- 2
Something in which one is keenly interested.
- 3
obsoletePossession by a god; divine inspiration or frenzy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Enthusiasm in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense feeling of excited, lively interest:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | enthousiasme, passion |
| German | Begeisterung, Enthusiasmus, Schwärmerei |
| Portuguese | entusiasmo |
| Spanish | entusiasmo |
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 enthusiasm come from?
First attested from 1603, from Middle French enthousiasme, from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Ancient Greek ἐνθουσιασμός (enthousiasmós), from ἐν (en, “in”) + θεός (theós, “god”) + οὐσία (ousía, “essence”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).