environment
/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt/noun
environment is spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is enviroment: about 1,050 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Environment is a noun meaning “The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest”. The plural of environment is environments.
How many letters and syllables are in environment?
| Letters | 11: E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 74 times per million words; the 1,427th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, enviroment, about 1,050 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 environment?
Environment is spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for environment 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 environment?
Environment appears 74 times per million words in written English, the 1,427th 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 environment?
- UK /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/
- UK /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹən.mənt/
- US /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt/
Environment has 4 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-environment.ogg, En-us-environment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of environment
- environments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does environment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- 2
The natural world or ecosystem.
- 3
All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- 4
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- 5
The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
- 6
The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
- 7
The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate environment?
Wiktionary records 5 abbreviations of environment: EHS, Env't, HSE, SHE, env.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Environment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | environnement |
| German | Umgebung, Umwelt , Umfeld |
| Portuguese | meio, ambiente, arredores , meio ambiente |
| Spanish | ambiente, medio, entorno , medioambiente, medio ambiente, naturaleza |
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 environment come from?
From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).