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regiment

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪmənt/noun, verb

regiment is spelled R-E-G-I-M-E-N-T: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, regiment means “A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of regiment is regiments.

How many letters and syllables are in regiment?

Letters8: R-E-G-I-M-E-N-T
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
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 regiment?

Regiment appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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 regiment?

  • /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪmənt/

Regiment has 3 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-regiment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with regiment

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

regimen vs regiment0 B

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

What rhymes with regiment?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as regiment.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: metering.

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 regiment

  • regiments plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • regimenting participle, present
  • regimented participle, past

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

What does regiment mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units.

  2. 2

    archaicRule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority.

    What place is there in all the world, not ſubiect to the regiment and power of this citie?

  3. 3

    obsoleteThe state or office of a ruler; rulership.

  4. 4

    obsoleteInfluence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet).

  5. 5

    obsoleteA place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain.

  6. 6

    obsoleteA regimen.

verb

  1. 1

    To form soldiers into a regiment.

  2. 2

    To systematize, or put in rigid order.

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

How do you abbreviate regiment?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of regiment: regt..

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

Regiment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrégiment (army unit)
GermanRegiment (army unit)
Portugueseregimento (army unit)
Spanishregimiento (army unit), regimentar, reglamentar (to build a social group, enforced by social…)

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 regiment come from?

From Middle French regement, régiment, and its source, Late Latin regimentum (“direction for government; course of medical treatment”), from Latin regō (“rule”).

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

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