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fulfill

/fʊlˈfɪl/verb

fulfill is spelled F-U-L-F-I-L-L. The wrong spelling people search most is fufill: about 300 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Fulfill is a verb meaning “To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.)”.

How many letters and syllables are in fulfill?

Letters7: F-U-L-F-I-L-L
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched3; the most searched, fufill, about 300 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Pairs people search

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 fulfill?

Fulfill is spelled F-U-L-F-I-L-L. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for fulfill in either form.

fulfillthe right spelling2,490 searches a month
fufilla missing l300 searches a month
fullfillan extra l280 searches a month
fullfilan extra l, a missing l110 searches a month

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 fulfill?

Fulfill appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 fulfill?

  • /fʊlˈfɪl/
  • /fəˈfɪl/
  • /fɔɹˈfɪl/

Fulfill has 2 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-us-fulfil.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with fulfill

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

fulfil vs fulfill1,600 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of fulfill

  • fulfills present, singular, he/she/it
  • fulfilling participle, present
  • fulfilled participle, past
  • fulfil UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does fulfill mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    USTo satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).

    You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfill it.

  2. 2

    USTo emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.

    This is the most fulfilling work I've ever done.

  3. 3

    USTo obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).

    Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time.

  4. 4

    USTo package, distribute, or ship goods.

  5. 5

    USarchaicTo fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.

    My lady is positively fulfilled of grace.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Fulfill in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcombler, satisfaire (to carry out – see also carry out, realize)
Germanerfüllen, einhalten (to carry out – see also carry out, realize)
Portugueserealizar, cumprir (to carry out – see also carry out, realize), satisfazer (to satisfy emotionally)
Spanishcumplir (to carry out – see also carry out, realize), cumplir con (to comply with)

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 fulfill come from?

From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan (“to fill full”). By surface analysis, full- + fill.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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