accurate
/ˈak.jʊ.ɹɪt/adjective
accurate is spelled A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is acurate: about 340 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Accurate is an adjective meaning “Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty”.
How many letters and syllables are in accurate?
| Letters | 8: A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 37 times per million words; the 2,618th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, acurate, about 340 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 accurate?
Accurate is spelled A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 30 of the searches for accurate 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 accurate?
Accurate appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th 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 accurate?
- UK /ˈak.jʊ.ɹɪt/
- UK /ˈak.jə.ɹɪt/
- UK /-ət/
Accurate has 3 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-accurate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with accurate?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as accurate (/akjʊɹɪt/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: carucate.
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 accurate
- more accurate comparative
- most accurate superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accurate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.
an accurate calculator
- 2
Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.
- 3
On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed.
an accurate pass
- 4
Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool.
an accurate marksman
- 5
obsoletePrecisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accurate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense exact or careful conformity to truth:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | précis, exact, juste |
| German | genau, präzise, exakt |
| Portuguese | preciso, exato, acurado, justo, certeiro |
| Spanish | acertado, acurado, atinado |
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 accurate come from?
Borrowed from Latin accūrātus, perfect passive participle of accūrō (“to take care of”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“care for”). First attested in 1610.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).