movement
move·ment/ˈmuːv.mənt/noun
movement is spelled M-O-V-E-M-E-N-T, 2 syllables: move·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is movment: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 68 of all searches for the word. Movement is a noun meaning “Physical motion between points in space”. The plural of movement is movements.
How many letters and syllables are in movement?
| Letters | 8: M-O-V-E-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: move·ment |
| In writing | 93 times per million words; the 1,144th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, movment, about 70 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 movement?
Movement is spelled M-O-V-E-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 68 of the searches for movement 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 movement?
Movement appears 93 times per million words in written English, the 1,144th 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 movement?
- /ˈmuːv.mənt/
Movement has 2 syllables, split move·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-movement.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of movement
- movements plural
- mov.
- movt
- mvmt
- mvt
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does movement mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Physical motion between points in space.
I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
- 2
A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
- 3
The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- 4
A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
social movement
- 5
A large division of a larger composition.
Beethoven's movements
- 6
Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
- 7
An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
- 8
The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
The movement on his cutter was devastating.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate movement?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of movement: movt, mvmt, mvt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Movement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mouvement |
| German | Bewegung , Satz |
| Portuguese | movimento , andamento |
| Spanish | movimiento, muebda (diused), movición |
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 movement come from?
From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).