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addict

/ˈæd.ɪkt/noun, verb

addict is spelled A-D-D-I-C-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, addict means “A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of addict is addicts.

How many letters and syllables are in addict?

Letters6: A-D-D-I-C-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st 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 addict?

Addict appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 addict?

  • /ˈæd.ɪkt/

As an adjective (“Addicted”): /əˈdɪkt/.

Addict 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-addict_(noun).wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-addict_(verb).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with addict?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: didact.

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 addict

  • addicts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • more addict comparative
  • most addict superlative
  • addicting participle, present
  • addicted participle, past

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

What does addict mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

    a heroin addict

  2. 2

    An adherent or fan (of something).

verb

  1. 1

    To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.

  2. 2

    archaicTo devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo bind (a person or thing) to the service of something.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo devote or pledge (oneself) to a given person, cause etc.

  5. 5

    archaicTo devote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.

  6. 6

    To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted.

adjective

  1. 1

    archaicAddicted.

  2. 2

    obsoleteBound, tied to, obligated.

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

Addict in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdépendant, dépendante, intoxiqué, intoxiquée, accro, addict (person who is addicted, especially to a harmful…)
GermanSüchtiger, Narkomane (person who is addicted, especially to a harmful…), süchtig machen (to cause to become addicted)
Portugueseviciado, adicto (person who is addicted, especially to a harmful…), viciar (to cause to become addicted), fanático, entusiasta (adherent or fan), viciar-se (to devote or dedicate oneself)
Spanishadicto, viciado, vicioso, enviciado (person who is addicted, especially to a harmful…), causar adicción en, volver adicto (to cause to become addicted)

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 addict come from?

Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)

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

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