parliament

par·lia·ment/ˈpɑɹləmənt/noun

parliament is spelled P-A-R-L-I-A-M-E-N-T, 3 syllables: par·lia·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is parliment: about 570 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Parliament is a noun meaning “A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues”. The plural of parliament is parliaments.

How many letters and syllables are in parliament?

Letters	10: P-A-R-L-I-A-M-E-N-T
Syllables	3: par·lia·ment
In writing	55 times per million words; the 1,865th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	1; the most searched, parliment, about 570 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 parliament?

Parliament is spelled P-A-R-L-I-A-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for parliament in either form.

parliamentthe right spelling3,000 searches a month

parlimenta missing a570 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 parliament?

Parliament appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Parliament, the name.

parliament0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce parliament?

UK /ˈpɑːləmənt/
UK /ˈpɑːlɪmənt/
US /ˈpɑɹləmənt/

Parliament has 3 syllables, split par·lia·ment in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-parliament.ogg, En-au-parliament.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of parliament

parliaments plural

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

What does parliament mean?

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

noun

1
A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.
2
In many countries, the legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to collect and spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers; a legislature.
3
A particular assembly of the members of such a legislature, as convened for a specific purpose or period of time (commonly designated with an ordinal number – for example, first parliament or 12th parliament – or a descriptive adjective – for example, Long Parliament, Short Parliament and Rump Parliament).
Following the general election, Jane Doe took her oath of office as a member of the nation's fifth parliament.
4
A gathering of birds, especially rooks or owls.
5
Parliament cake, a type of gingerbread.
6
UKa length of time for which a parliament is summoned, in modern times therefore the period between two consecutive elections.
This parliament has been more scandal-filled than any other in history.