alcoholic
/ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/noun, adjective
alcoholic is spelled A-L-C-O-H-O-L-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is alcholic: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Alcoholic is a noun meaning “A person who is addicted to alcohol”. The plural of alcoholic is alcoholics.
How many letters and syllables are in alcoholic?
| Letters | 9: A-L-C-O-H-O-L-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, alcholic, about 210 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 alcoholic?
Alcoholic is spelled A-L-C-O-H-O-L-I-C. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for alcoholic 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 alcoholic?
Alcoholic appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th 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 alcoholic?
- UK /ˌæl.kəˈhɒl.ɪk/
- US /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/
- /ˌæl.kəˈhɑ.lɪk/
Alcoholic 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-alcoholic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with alcoholic?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as alcoholic from its last stressed vowel (/ɔlɪk/):
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 alcoholic
- alcoholics plural
- more alcoholic comparative
- most alcoholic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does alcoholic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who is addicted to alcohol.
- 2
One who abuses alcohol.
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to alcohol.
- 2
Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
He ordered an alcoholic beverage.
- 3
Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate alcoholic?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of alcoholic: alc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Alcoholic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | alcoolique , alcoolisé |
| German | Alkoholiker, Alkoholikerin, Alkoholkranker, Alkoholkranke, Alkoholsüchtiger, Alkoholsüchtige |
| Portuguese | alcoólatra, alcoólico |
| Spanish | alcohólico, escabiador , alcoholista |
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 alcoholic come from?
First attested 1891, from alcohol + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).