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statement

state·ment/ˈsteɪtmənt/noun, adjective, verb

statement is spelled S-T-A-T-E-M-E-N-T, 2 syllables: state·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is statment: about 750 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 55 of all searches for the word. Statement is a noun meaning “A declaration or remark”. The plural of statement is statements.

How many letters and syllables are in statement?

Letters9: S-T-A-T-E-M-E-N-T
Syllables2: state·ment
In writing93 times per million words; the 1,144th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, statment, about 750 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 statement?

Statement is spelled S-T-A-T-E-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 55 of the searches for statement in either form.

statementthe right spelling40,230 searches a month
statmenta missing e750 searches a month

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 statement?

Statement appears 93 times per million words in written English, the 1,144th 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 statement?

  • UK /ˈsteɪtm(ə)nt/
  • US /ˈsteɪtmənt/

Statement has 2 syllables, split state·ment in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-statement.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with statement?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as statement from its last stressed vowel (/eɪtmənt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: testament.

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 statement

  • statements plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • statementing participle, present
  • statemented participle, past

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

What does statement mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A declaration or remark.

    make a statement

  2. 2

    A presentation of opinion or position.

  3. 3

    A document that summarizes financial activity.

    a bank statement

  4. 4

    An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.

adjective

  1. 1

    Decisive.

verb

  1. 1

    To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK, a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

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

Statement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdéclaration (declaration or remark), relevé (finance: document that summarizes financial…), instruction (computing: instruction in a computer program)
GermanAussage, Angabe, Erklärung (declaration or remark), Stellungnahme, Bekundung (presentation of opinion or position – see also…)
Portuguesedeclaração, afirmação (declaration or remark), extrato (finance: document that summarizes financial…)
Spanishenunciado, aseveración (declaration or remark)

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 statement come from?

From state + -ment.

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

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