wright

Other forms of wright

plural

wrights·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wright

What does wright mean?

wright means "United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wright?

wright has 1 syllable: wright. In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪt/.

What is another word for wright?

Close synonyms include Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine, Richard Wright, Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wright a common word?

wright is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with wright?

15 words rhyme with wright. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.