fury
/ˈfjʊɹ.i/noun
fury is spelled F-U-R-Y: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fury means “Extreme anger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fury is furies.
How many letters and syllables are in fury?
| Letters | 4: F-U-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is fury?
Fury 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 fury?
- UK /ˈfjʊə.ɹi/
- UK /ˈfjɔːɹi/
- US /ˈfjʊɹ.i/
Fury 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: En-us-fury.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with fury?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fury from its last stressed vowel (/ʊɹi/):
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 fury
- furies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fury mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Extreme anger.
- 2
Strength or violence in action.
- 3
An angry or malignant person.
- 4
obsoleteA thief.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fury in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 fury come from?
From Middle English furie, from Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).