segment
/ˈsɛɡ.mənt/noun, verb
segment is spelled S-E-G-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is segement: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Segment is a noun meaning “A length of some object”. The plural of segment is segments.
How many letters and syllables are in segment?
| Letters | 7: S-E-G-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, segement, about 40 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 segment?
Segment is spelled S-E-G-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for segment 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 segment?
Segment appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th 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 segment?
- US /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/
As a verb (“To divide into segments or sections”): /sɛɡˈmɛnt/, /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/, /sɛɡˈmɛnt/.
Segment 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)-Vealhurl-segment_(noun).wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-segment_(verb).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of segment
- segments plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- segmenting participle, present
- segmented participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does segment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A length of some object.
a segment of rope
- 2
One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf
- 3
A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
- 4
The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- 5
The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- 6
Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- 7
A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- 8
A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
verb
- 1
To divide into segments or sections.
Segment the essay by topic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate segment?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of segment: seg.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Segment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | segment , quartier , segmenter |
| German | Segment , segmentieren |
| Portuguese | segmento , secção , segmentar |
| Spanish | segmento , segmentar |
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 segment come from?
From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).