equipment
e·quip·ment/ɪˈkwɪpmənt/noun
equipment is spelled E-Q-U-I-P-M-E-N-T, 3 syllables: e·quip·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is equiptment: about 620 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Equipment is a noun meaning “The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition”. The plural of equipment is equipments.
How many letters and syllables are in equipment?
| Letters | 9: E-Q-U-I-P-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: e·quip·ment |
| In writing | 76 times per million words; the 1,394th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, equiptment, about 620 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell equipment?
Equipment is spelled E-Q-U-I-P-M-E-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for equipment 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 equipment?
Equipment appears 76 times per million words in written English, the 1,394th 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 equipment?
- /ɪˈkwɪpmənt/
- [ɪˈkʰwɪpmənt] ~ [ɪˈkʰwɪpmn̩t]
- /əˈkwɪpmənt/
Equipment has 3 syllables, split e·quip·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-equipment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of equipment
- equipments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does equipment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
- 2
Any items used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
We need more gardening equipment if we want to properly landscape our yard, not just a rake and some gloves.
- 3
slangThe male genitalia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate equipment?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of equipment: Equip., eqp, eqpt, equipt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Equipment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | équipement |
| German | Ausrüstung , Equipment, Ausstattung, Zubehör |
| Portuguese | equipagem , equipamento |
| Spanish | equipamiento, equipación , equipo |
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 equipment come from?
From equip + -ment, or from French équipement.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).