with
/wɪð/preposition, adverb, noun
with is spelled W-I-T-H. The wrong spelling people search most is wih: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 64 of all searches for the word. With is a preposition meaning “Against”.
How many letters and syllables are in with?
| Letters | 4: W-I-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7,079 times per million words; the 14th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 8; the most searched, wih, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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 do you spell with?
With is spelled W-I-T-H. 8 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 30 of the searches for with 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 with?
With appears 7,079 times per million words in written English, the 14th 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 with?
- /wɪð/
- /wɪθ/
- /wɪð/
With has one syllable (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-uk-with.ogg, En-us-with.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with with
Also written: wae, whiz, withe.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with with?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as with.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: whit.
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 with
- wyth
- whith
- wᵗʰ
- wᵗ
- w/
- w
- whit
- wi'
- wit
- wit'
- wid
- wif
- wiv
- withs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does with mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
preposition
- 1
Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
- 2
In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
- 3
In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
- 4
Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
Jim was listening to Bach with his eyes closed.
- 5
In support of.
We are with you all the way.
- 6
In regard to.
There are a number of problems with your plan.
- 7
obsoleteTo denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
- 8
Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
adverb
- 1
USinformalAlong, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
noun
- 1
Alternative form of withe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate with?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of with: w, w/, wt, wth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
With in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 with come from?
From Middle English with, from Old English wiþ (“against, opposite, toward, with”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþi, a shortened form of Proto-Germanic *wiþrą (“against”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).