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Atira

noun

Atira is a noun meaning “Ellipsis of Atira asteroid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-T-I-R-A, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Atira is Atiras.

What does Atira mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Ellipsis of Atira asteroid.

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

Forms of Atira

  • Atiras plural

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

How common is Atira?

Atira appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.

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

Where does Atira come from?

From Pawnee Atira, from Pawnee atira (“'our mother', voc. 'Mother'”).

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