headquarter
verb
headquarter is spelled H-E-A-D-Q-U-A-R-T-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is headquater: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Headquarter is a verb meaning “To provide (an organization) with headquarters”.
How many letters and syllables are in headquarter?
| Letters | 11: H-E-A-D-Q-U-A-R-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 50,539th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, headquater, about 20 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 headquarter?
Headquarter is spelled H-E-A-D-Q-U-A-R-T-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for headquarter 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 headquarter?
Headquarter appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th 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 headquarter?
Headquarter 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).
Forms of headquarter
- headquarters present, singular, he/she/it
- headquartering participle, present
- headquartered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does headquarter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
USTo provide (an organization) with headquarters.
- 2
USTo establish headquarters.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Headquarter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense To provide an organization with headquarters:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | sediar |
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.