accuracy
/ˈæk.jɚ.ə.si/noun
accuracy is spelled A-C-C-U-R-A-C-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is acuracy: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 58 of all searches for the word. Accuracy is a noun meaning “The state of being accurate; being free from error; exactness; correctness”. The plural of accuracy is accuracies.
How many letters and syllables are in accuracy?
| Letters | 8: A-C-C-U-R-A-C-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acuracy, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 accuracy?
Accuracy is spelled A-C-C-U-R-A-C-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 58 of the searches for accuracy 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 accuracy?
Accuracy appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,752nd 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 accuracy?
- UK /ˈak.jʊ.ɹə.si/
- UK /ˈak.jə.ɹə.si/
- US /ˈæk.jɚ.ə.si/
Accuracy has 4 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: En-us-accuracy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with accuracy?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as accuracy from its last stressed vowel (/ækjəɹəsi/):
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 accuracy
- accuracies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accuracy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being accurate; being free from error; exactness; correctness
- 2
Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
The jury doubted the accuracy of the witness' comments.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accuracy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense state of being accurate:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | exactitude, précision |
| German | Genauigkeit, Sorgfalt, Exaktheit, Richtigkeit, Fehlerfreiheit |
| Portuguese | exatidão, precisão, correção, apuramento |
| Spanish | tino, acierto, acertamiento |
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.