achievement

Other forms of achievement

plural

achievements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about achievement

What does achievement mean?

achievement means "the action of accomplishing something".

How many syllables are in achievement?

achievement has 3 syllables: a-chieve-ment. The stress falls on "chieve". In IPA it is /əˈtʃivmənt/.

What is another word for achievement?

Close synonyms include accomplishment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is achievement a common word?

achievement is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.