# environment

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/ · frequency rank #1,424

## Definitions
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.
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.

## Etymology
From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.

## Easily confused with
- **environmental** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/environment-vs-environmental)

## Common misspellings (17)
`enivronment`, `ennvironment`, `enviornment`, `envirnoment`, `enviromnent`, `environemnt`, `environmennt`, `environmentt`, `environmetn`, `environmment`, `environmnet`, `environnment`, `envirronment`, `envrionment`, `envvironment`, `evnironment`, `nevironment`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/environment