replacement
/ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/noun
replacement is spelled R-E-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is relpacement: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Replacement is a noun meaning “A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute”. The plural of replacement is replacements.
How many letters and syllables are in replacement?
| Letters | 11: R-E-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,364th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, relpacement, about 10 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 replacement?
Replacement is spelled R-E-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 replacement?
Replacement appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th 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 replacement?
- /ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/
Replacement 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-replacement.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of replacement
- replacements plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does replacement mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
- 2
The act of replacing something.
The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.
- 3
The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate replacement?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of replacement: repl..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Replacement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | remplaçant, substitut |
| German | Ersatz, Ersatzspieler |
| Portuguese | substituto , substituição, reposição |
| Spanish | reemplazo, remplazo, remuda , remudamiento |
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 replacement come from?
From replace + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).