About The Word “Absurd”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “absurd”, including spelling, parts of speech, “absurd” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “absurd”

Absurd is spelled a-b-s-u-r-d and has 6 letters.


How to pronounce “absurd”

IPA pronunciation: /əbˈsɜrd/

Phonetic pronunciation: uhb-SURD


How many vowels and consonants in “absurd”

The word “absurd” has 4 consonants and 2 vowels.


How many syllables in “absurd”?

There are 2 syllables in the word “absurd”.


What type of word is “absurd”?

The word "absurd" can be a adjective and noun.

Meaning of the word “absurd”

Absurd refers to something that is wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate, often evoking a sense of disbelief or amusement.
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Synonyms for “absurd”

Other words for “absurd” include ridiculous, preposterous, ludicrous, nonsensical, irrational, illogical, senseless, unreasonable, silly, bizarre, outrageous, farcical, laughable, comical, incongruous, inane, foolish, unwise.

Word families for “absurd”

Absurder, absurdest, absurdities, absurdity, absurdly, absurdness

Common misspellings of “absurd”

Ahbsurd

Similar words to “absurd”

Absurdity, absurdly, burd, surd

Scrambled words derived from “absurd”

Rusbad, rsabud, abrusd, dausbr, dsbrua, urbsda, dbasur, bdrsau, sadbur, udrabs, srudba, rabdsu, busdra, sdarbu, adsrub, dabrsu, asbrdu, rdbusa, arudbs, adrubs, draubs, udbrsa, dubras, srudab, arsbud

Crossword clues for “absurd”

Preposterous bird loses head and tail (6).

Fun facts about the word “absurd”

The word “absurd” has a Scrabble score of 9 and reads drusba in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “absurd”

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“absurd” spelled in Morse code

.- -... ... ..- .-. -.. (dot dash dash dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dash dot dash dot dash dot dot).

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “absurd”

Lowercase word: 97 98 115 117 114 100

Uppercase word: 65 66 83 85 82 68

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “absurd”

Lowercase word: 1100001 1100010 1110011 1110101 1110010 1100100

Uppercase word: 1000001 1000010 1010011 1010101 1010010 1000100

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “absurd”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x61 0x62 0x73 0x75 0x72 0x64

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x41 0x42 0x53 0x55 0x52 0x44

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “absurd”

Lowercase: 97 98 115 117 114 100

Upprcase: 65 66 83 85 82 68

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “absurd”

Lowercase: 141 142 163 165 162 144

Upprcase: 101 102 123 125 122 104

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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