graphics
/ˈɡɹæfɪks/noun
graphics is spelled G-R-A-P-H-I-C-S. The wrong spelling people search most is graphis: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Graphics is a noun meaning “The making of architectural or design drawings”.
How many letters and syllables are in graphics?
| Letters | 8: G-R-A-P-H-I-C-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, graphis, about 170 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell graphics?
Graphics is spelled G-R-A-P-H-I-C-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for graphics 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 graphics?
Graphics appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th 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 graphics?
- /ˈɡɹæfɪks/
Graphics 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-graphics.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of graphics
- graphix informal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does graphics mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The making of architectural or design drawings.
- 2
The graphic arts.
- 3
The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data.
- 4
The art or visual representations displayed by a computer.
This game is really fun, but the graphics aren't very good.
- 5
plural of graphic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate graphics?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of graphics: AGP, GFX, gfx.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Graphics 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.