academia

/ˌæk.əˈdi.mi.ə/noun

academia is spelled A-C-A-D-E-M-I-A: 8 letters and 5 syllables. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, academia means “The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in academia?

Letters	8: A-C-A-D-E-M-I-A
Syllables	5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	anemia bohemia ischemia hyponatremia more

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 academia?

Academia appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form in the list.

academia0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce academia?

UK /ˌæk.əˈdiː.mɪ.ə/
/ˌæk.əˈdeɪ.mɪ.ə/
US /ˌæk.əˈdi.mi.ə/

Academia has 5 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-academia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with academia?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as academia from its last stressed vowel (/imiə/):

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 academia mean?

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

noun

1
The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
2
Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.

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

Academia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
German	Akademia, die akademische Welt (scientific and cultural community engaged in…)
Spanish	mundo académico, ámbito académico (scientific and cultural community engaged in…), academia (institution of higher education)
Portuguese	academia (institution of higher education)

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.

Where does academia come from?

Borrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academe, academy, and Akademeia.