receipt
/ɹɪˈsit/noun, verb
receipt is spelled R-E-C-E-I-P-T. The wrong spelling people search most is reciept: about 14,940 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Receipt is a noun meaning “The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received”. The plural of receipt is receipts.
How many letters and syllables are in receipt?
| Letters | 7: R-E-C-E-I-P-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.3 times per million words; the 8,036th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, reciept, about 14,940 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 do you spell receipt?
Receipt is spelled R-E-C-E-I-P-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for receipt 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 receipt?
Receipt appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th 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 receipt?
- UK /ɹɪˈsiːt/
- US /ɹɪˈsit/
- Australia /ɹɪˈsiːt/
Receipt 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-receipt.wav, En-us-receipt.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with receipt?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as receipt from its last stressed vowel (/it/):
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 receipt
- receipts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- receipting participle, present
- receipted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does receipt mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
A balance payable on receipt of the goods.
- 2
obsoleteThe fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
- 3
A quantity or amount received; takings.
This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!
- 4
A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
- 5
(A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.
- 6
(A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.
- 7
archaicA recipe, instructions, prescription.
- 8
obsoleteA receptacle.
verb
- 1
To give or write a receipt (for something).
to receipt delivered goods
- 2
To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.
to receipt a bill
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate receipt?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of receipt: rcpt, recpt..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Receipt in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | réception , reçu, récépissé, any of the preceding or quittance, for sent e-mail, letter |
| German | Empfang , Empfangsbestätigung, Quittung, Beleg, Kassenzettel , Einnahme |
| Portuguese | recepção, recebimento , recibo, nota fiscal, talão , receita |
| Spanish | recepción, recibimiento, recibo , resguardo, comprobante |
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 receipt come from?
From Middle English receyt, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. Doublet of recept and recipe. False cognate of Persian رسید (resid) (whence Urdu رسید (rasīd)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).