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ard

/ɑɹd/noun, adjective, adverb, interjection

ard is spelled A-R-D: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ard means “A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ard is ards.

How many letters and syllables are in ard?

Letters3: A-R-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.2 times per million words; the 26,420th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
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 ard?

Ard appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th 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 ard?

  • US /ɑɹd/
  • UK /ɑːd/

As an adjective (“Contraction of all right”): /ɑɹd/.

Ard has one syllable (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-ard.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with ard?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as ard from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: rad, dar.

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 ard

  • ards plural

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

What does ard mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.

adjective

  1. 1

    slangContraction of all right.

  2. 2

    slangOkay; average; nothing special.

noun

as ARD
  1. 1

    Initialism of acid reflux disease.

  2. 2

    Initialism of acute respiratory disease.

  3. 3

    Initialism of aftertreatment regeneration device (on Diesel engines manufactured by Caterpillar Inc.)

adverb

  1. 1

    slangContraction of all right.

interjection

  1. 1

    slangContraction of all right.

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

Ard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frencharaire (simple plough)
GermanRitzpflug (simple plough)
Portuguese-ardo (someone who is in a specified condition)
Spanish-ardo (someone who is in a specified condition)

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 ard come from?

Borrowed from Norwegian ard (“plough”), from Old Norse arðr, from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom (“plough”), whence also Latin aratrum.

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

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