alright
/ɔlˈɹaɪt/interjection
alright is spelled A-L-R-I-G-H-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “all right vs alright” about 5,400 times a month (Google, United States). As an interjection, alright means “Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in alright?
| Letters | 7: A-L-R-I-G-H-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 common is alright?
Alright appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th 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 alright?
- UK /ɔːlˈɹaɪt/
- /aːˈɹiːt/
- US /ɔlˈɹaɪt/
Alright 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)-Back_ache-alright.wav, En-us-alright.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with alright
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: all right (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: all right.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with alright?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as alright from its last stressed vowel (/aɪt/):
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 alright
- aight
- alreet
- alrite informal
- awright
- oright
- o-rite
- orite
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does alright mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
interjection
- 1
informalUsed to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK.
- 2
informalAn expression of happiness.
Alright! I passed my exam!
- 3
UKinformalA generic greeting; hello; how are you.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate alright?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of alright: alr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does alright come from?
Univerbation of all + right. Compare Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”) (from eall + riht), equivalent to al- (“all”) + right.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).