harassment
/həˈɹæsmənt/noun
harassment is spelled H-A-R-A-S-S-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is harrassment: about 970 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Harassment is a noun meaning “Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress”. The plural of harassment is harassments.
How many letters and syllables are in harassment?
| Letters | 10: H-A-R-A-S-S-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, harrassment, about 970 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 harassment?
Harassment is spelled H-A-R-A-S-S-M-E-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 harassment?
Harassment appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th 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 harassment?
- /həˈɹæsmənt/
- /ˈhæɹəsmənt/
Harassment has 3 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-harassment.oga, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-harassment.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of harassment
- harassments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does harassment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.
- 2
Deliberate pestering or intimidation.
- 3
The use of repeated small-scale attacks to wear down an enemy force.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Harassment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | harcèlement |
| German | Belästigung , Aufdringlichkeit |
| Portuguese | assédio , incômodo |
| Spanish | acoso, hostigamiento |
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 harassment come from?
Borrowed from Middle French harassement. By surface analysis, harass + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).