anna
/ˈænə/noun
anna is spelled A-N-N-A: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,814th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Anna, the name). People search “ana vs anna” about 170 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, anna means “A former Indian coin, being a 16th of a rupee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of anna is annas.
How many letters and syllables are in anna?
| Letters | 4: A-N-N-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 23 times per million words; the 3,814th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is anna?
Anna appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,814th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Anna, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce anna?
- /ˈænə/
Anna has 2 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)-Wodencafe-anna.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with anna
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: ana.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with anna?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as anna.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nana, naan, anan.
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).
Forms of anna
- annas plural
- ana
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does anna mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A former Indian coin, being a 16th of a rupee.
- 2
IndiaslangMoney (like "bucks" and "quid").
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anna in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense former unit of Indian currency:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | aná |
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 anna come from?
From Hindi अन्न (ann, “food, grain”), आना (ānā), from Sanskrit अन्न (anna).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).