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spurred

/spɜɹd/adjective, verb

spurred is spelled S-P-U-R-R-E-D: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, spurred means “Wearing spurs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in spurred?

Letters7: S-P-U-R-R-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.8 times per million words; the 20,629th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 spurred?

Spurred appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th 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 spurred?

  • UK /spɜːd/
  • US /spɜɹd/
  • /spʌɹd/

Spurred 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).

What rhymes with spurred?

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

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 spurred mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Wearing spurs.

    a booted and spurred cowboy

  2. 2

    Furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.

    a spurred corolla

  3. 3

    Affected with spur, or ergot.

    spurred rye

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of spur (a form of spur)

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

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