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platform

plat·form/ˈplætfɔɹm/noun, verb

platform is spelled P-L-A-T-F-O-R-M, 2 syllables: plat·form. The wrong spelling people search most is platfrom: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 108 of all searches for the word. Platform is a noun meaning “A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made”. The plural of platform is platforms.

How many letters and syllables are in platform?

Letters8: P-L-A-T-F-O-R-M
Syllables2: plat·form
In writing47 times per million words; the 2,153rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, platfrom, about 40 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 platform?

Platform is spelled P-L-A-T-F-O-R-M. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 108 of the searches for platform in either form.

platformthe right spelling4,260 searches a month
platfromo and r swapped40 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 platform?

Platform appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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 platform?

  • UK /ˈplætfɔːm/
  • UK /ˈplɑtfɔːm/
  • US /ˈplætfɔɹm/

Platform has 2 syllables, split plat·form in writing.

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

Forms of platform

  • platforms plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • platforming participle, present
  • platformed participle, past

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

What does platform mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.

  2. 2

    A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.

  3. 3

    A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.

    This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.

  4. 4

    Something that allows an enterprise to advance.

  5. 5

    A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.

  6. 6

    A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers.

  7. 7

    A specific stopping place on one of multiple tracks at a station, numbered or otherwise named.

  8. 8

    Ellipsis of platform shoe (“a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles”).

verb

  1. 1

    To furnish with or shape into a platform

  2. 2

    To place on, or as if on, a platform.

  3. 3

    To place a train alongside a station platform.

  4. 4

    To include in a political platform

  5. 5

    To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).

  6. 6

    To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.

  7. 7

    obsoleteTo form a plan of; to model; to lay out.

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

How do you abbreviate platform?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of platform: LPD, plat.

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

Platform in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchscène, podium (stage for speeches and performances), programme (politics: political stance on a broad set of…), quai (travel: raised structure for passengers), voie (travel: numbered stopping place for trains)
GermanPlattform, Podest (stage for speeches and performances), Programm, Parteiprogramm, Grundsatzprogramm (politics: political stance on a broad set of…)
Portugueseplataforma (stage for speeches and performances), salto plataforma (high shoe type – see also platform shoe)
Spanishprograma (politics: political stance on a broad set of…), andén, plataforma (travel: raised structure for passengers)

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 platform come from?

From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.

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

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