pamphlet
panph·let/ˈpæmflɪt/noun, verb
pamphlet is spelled P-A-M-P-H-L-E-T, 2 syllables: panph·let. The wrong spelling people search most is pamplet: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Pamphlet is a noun meaning “A small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together…”. The plural of pamphlet is pamphlets.
How many letters and syllables are in pamphlet?
| Letters | 8: P-A-M-P-H-L-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: panph·let |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, pamplet, about 270 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 pamphlet?
Pamphlet is spelled P-A-M-P-H-L-E-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for pamphlet 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 pamphlet?
Pamphlet appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 pamphlet?
- UK /ˈpæmflɪt/
- UK /-flət/
- UK /ˈpænflɪt/
Pamphlet has 2 syllables, split panph·let in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pamphlet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pamphlet
- pamphlets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- pamphleting participle, present
- pamphletting participle, present
- pamphleted participle, past
- pamphletted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pamphlet mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover, formerly containing literary compositions, newsletters, and newspapers, but now chiefly informational matter.
- 2
Such a work containing political material or discussing matters of controversy.
- 3
obsoleteA brief handwritten work.
verb
- 1
To distribute pamphlets (to someone or some place).
- 2
archaicTo write about (someone or something) in a pamphlet; to issue (some material) in the form of a pamphlet.
- 3
To distribute pamphlets.
- 4
obsoleterareTo write or produce pamphlets.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pamphlet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or seve:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pamphlet, tract |
| German | Flugschrift |
| Portuguese | panfleto, brochura, folheto |
| Spanish | panfleto |
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 pamphlet come from?
The noun is derived from Late Middle English pamflet, pamphilet (“short written text; small book; tract”) [and other forms], from Middle French Pamphilet (compare Late Latin (Anglo-Latin) pamfletus, panfletus, paunflettus (“short written text”), Old French Panfilès), a popular shorthand for the 12th-century Latin love poem Pamphilus, seu de amore (Pamphilus, or On Love): the widely circulated pamphlets then gave this name to the whole phenomenon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).