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auric

adjective

auric is spelled A-U-R-I-C: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Auric, the name). As an adjective, auric means “Of or pertaining to trivalent gold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in auric?

Letters5: A-U-R-I-C
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 87,317th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 auric?

Auric appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Auric, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with auric?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: curia.

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).

What does auric mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to trivalent gold.

  2. 2

    Pertaining to an aura.

  3. 3

    obsoleteOf, or pertaining to the ear; aural.

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

Auric in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense trivalent gold:

LanguageWords
Frenchaurique
Spanisháurico

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 auric come from?

From Latin aurum + -ic.

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

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