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acme

/ˈæk.mi/noun

acme is spelled A-C-M-E: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, acme means “A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of acme is acmes.

How many letters and syllables are in acme?

Letters4: A-C-M-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 33,236th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is acme?

Acme appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th 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 acme?

  • /ˈæk.mi/

Acme has 2 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-acme.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with acme?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as acme.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: came, mace.

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 acme

  • acmes plural

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

What does acme mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.

  2. 2

    A paragon: a person or thing representing such a high point.

  3. 3

    rareFull bloom or reproductive maturity.

  4. 4

    Sexual orgasm.

  5. 5

    Synonym of crisis, the decisive moment in the course of an illness.

  6. 6

    Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a threading format.

noun

as ACME
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a threading format.

noun

as Acme
  1. 1

    A 29° trapezoidal threading used for various fittings and adapters.

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

Acme in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchacmé (the highest point), force de l'âge (full bloom)
GermanHöhepunkt, Gipfel (the highest point), Blüte des Lebens (full bloom)
Spanishacmé, apogeo, cúspide (the highest point)

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 acme come from?

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point; high point”).

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

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