pleasant
/ˈplɛz.ənt/adjective
pleasant is spelled P-L-E-A-S-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is pleasent: about 370 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Pleasant is an adjective meaning “Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner”.
How many letters and syllables are in pleasant?
| Letters | 8: P-L-E-A-S-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,934th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, pleasent, about 370 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell pleasant?
Pleasant is spelled P-L-E-A-S-A-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for pleasant 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 pleasant?
Pleasant appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th 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 pleasant?
- /ˈplɛz.ənt/
- [ˈplɛz.n̩t]
- Australia /ˈplez.ənt/
Pleasant has 2 syllables (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-pleasant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pleasant
- more pleasant comparative
- pleasanter comparative
- most pleasant superlative
- pleasantest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pleasant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
We had a pleasant walk around the town.
- 2
obsoleteFacetious, joking.
noun
- 1
obsoleteA wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pleasant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense giving pleasure; pleasing in manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | agréable, plaisant |
| German | angenehm |
| Portuguese | agradável |
| Spanish | placentero, placible, aplacible, apacible, ameno |
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 pleasant come from?
From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. By surface analysis, please + -ant. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).