requirement
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "requirement", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "requirement" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "requirement" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
requirement is aEnglishnoun. It means: A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom or what it is given to, and for in re... Pronounced /ɹɪˈkwʌɪəm(ə)nt/. It ranks #4,628 in English word frequency. Often confused with retirement and requirements.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | requirement |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈkwʌɪəm(ə)nt/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for requirement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɪˈkwʌɪəm(ə)nt/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,628 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for requirement, with forms such as "erquirement", "reqiurement", and "reqquirement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "retirement", "requirements", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From require + -ment. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is requirement, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-R-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom or what it is given to, and for in relation to what is required.
- 2Something asked.
- 3A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implementation failure, or (c) result in system failure.
Etymology
From require + -ment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erquirement,reqiurement,reqquirement,requierment,requireemnt,requiremennt,requirementt,requiremetn,requiremment,requiremnet,requirmeent,requirrement,requriement,reuqirement,rqeuirement,rrequirement
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for requirement
Misspelling Variants of "requirement"
Frequency rank: #4,628 in English
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