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part

/pɑɹt/noun, verb, adjective, adverb

part is spelled P-A-R-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 603 times per million words in written English, the 162nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “apart vs part” about 70 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, part means “A fraction of a whole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of part is parts.

How many letters and syllables are in part?

Letters4: P-A-R-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing603 times per million words; the 162nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is part?

Part appears 603 times per million words in written English, the 162nd 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 part?

  • UK /pɑːt/
  • US /pɑɹt/
  • Australia /pɐːt/

Part has one syllable (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-part.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with part

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

apart vs part70 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with part?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as part from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: trap, tarp, prat, rapt.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of part

  • parts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • parting participle, present
  • parted participle, past

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

What does part mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A fraction of a whole.

    Gaul is divided into three parts.

  2. 2

    A distinct element of something larger.

    The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.

  3. 3

    A group inside a larger group.

  4. 4

    Share, especially of a profit.

    I want my part of the bounty.

  5. 5

    A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

    The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.

  6. 6

    3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

  7. 7

    A section of a document.

    Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.

  8. 8

    A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

verb

  1. 1

    To leave the company of (each other, or someone/something [with with or from]).

  2. 2

    To divide in two.

    to part the curtains

  3. 3

    To cut hair with a parting.

  4. 4

    To be divided in two or separated.

    A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle.

  5. 5

    archaicTo divide up; to share.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo have a part or share; to partake.

  7. 7

    To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

  8. 8

    obsoleteTo hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

adjective

  1. 1

    Fractional; partial.

    Fred was part owner of the car.

adverb

  1. 1

    Partly; partially; fractionally.

    Part finished

  2. 2

    to a partial degree.

    My Native American friend is also part German and part French.

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

How do you abbreviate part?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of part: pt, pt..

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

Part in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpartie, organe (fraction of a whole), rôle (position or role, especially in a play), raie (hair dividing line), se séparer (to leave the company of), faire une raie (to cut hair with a parting; shed)
GermanTeil (fraction of a whole), Rolle (position or role, especially in a play), Scheitel (hair dividing line), sich trennen (to leave the company of), scheiteln (to cut hair with a parting; shed), teilen (to divide in two)
Portugueseparte, pedaço (fraction of a whole), papel (position or role, especially in a play), partir (to leave the company of), repartir (to cut hair with a parting; shed), categoria (group inside a larger group)
Spanishparte, porción, pedazo, trozo (fraction of a whole), categoría (group inside a larger group), refacción (distinct element of something larger)

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 part come from?

From Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to sell, exchange”). Akin to Latin portiō (“a portion, part”), parāre (“to make ready, prepare”).

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

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