About The Word “Almost”

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

How to spell “almost”

Almost is spelled a-l-m-o-s-t and has 6 letters.


How to pronounce “almost”

IPA pronunciation: /ˈɔlmoʊst/

Phonetic pronunciation: awl-mohst


How many vowels and consonants in “almost”

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


How many syllables in “almost”?

There are 2 syllables in the word “almost”.


What type of word is “almost”?

The word "almost" can be a adverb and noun.

Meaning of the word “almost”

'Almost' is an adverb that indicates something is very close to being completed, achieved, or fulfilled, but has not yet reached that point. It can also be used to describe a situation or condition that is nearly, but not quite, the same as another.

Origin of the word “almost”

The word 'almost' has its origins in the Old English phrase 'eallmǣst,' which is a combination of 'eall' (meaning 'all') and 'mǣst' (meaning 'most'). This Old English term is derived from the Proto-Germanic language, specifically from the words 'allaz' and 'maistaz.'

Example sentences with the word “almost”

Adverb:
  1. Almost everyone in the room agreed with the proposal.
  2. She had almost finished her meal when the phone rang.
  3. The project was almost too difficult for the team to complete.
  4. The weather was so cold that the lake almost froze over.

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Synonyms for “almost”

Other words for “almost” include nearly, just about, practically, virtually, all but, close to, near, not quite, roughly, approximately.

Common misspellings of “almost”

Ahlmost

Similar words to “almost”

Alamos, alms, amos, lost, most, almose

Scrambled words derived from “almost”

Ltamos, toalsm, atloms, smlaot, salmot, tsaolm, satlom, otslam, tmalso, tsmalo, tmolas, olmsat, laomts, oatlms, lotmsa, loatsm, mlaots, saomlt, lsaotm, mastol, lsoatm, lstoam, sotmla, smaolt, moatls

Words that rhyme with “almost”

Compost, foremost, utmost, coast, ghost, toast, boast, host

Crossword clues for “almost”

Near to losing last letter (6).

Anagrams of “almost”

Smalto, stomal

Fun facts about the word “almost”

The word “almost” has a Scrabble score of 8 and reads tsomla in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “almost”

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The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“almost” spelled in Morse code

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

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 “almost”

Lowercase word: 97 108 109 111 115 116

Uppercase word: 65 76 77 79 83 84

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 “almost”

Lowercase word: 1100001 1101100 1101101 1101111 1110011 1110100

Uppercase word: 1000001 1001100 1001101 1001111 1010011 1010100

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 “almost”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x61 0x6C 0x6D 0x6F 0x73 0x74

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x41 0x4C 0x4D 0x4F 0x53 0x54

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 “almost”

Lowercase: 97 108 109 111 115 116

Upprcase: 65 76 77 79 83 84

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 “almost”

Lowercase: 141 154 155 157 163 164

Upprcase: 101 114 115 117 123 124

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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