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era

e·raUK /ˈɪə.ɹə/noun

era is spelled E-R-A: 3 letters and 2 syllables (e·ra). It appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, era means “A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of era is eras.

How many letters and syllables are in era?

Letters3: E-R-A
Syllables2: e·ra
In writing47 times per million words; the 2,153rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 era?

Era appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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).

How do you pronounce era?

  • UK /ˈɪə.ɹə/
  • UK [ˈɪə̯.ɹə ~ ˈɪː.ɹə]
  • /iə.ɹə/

Era has 2 syllables, split e·ra in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-era.ogg, En-us-era.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with era?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as era (/ɪəɹə/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: are, ear, rea.

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 era

  • eras plural

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

What does era mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.

  2. 2

    A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.

  3. 3

    informalAn indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.

noun

as ERA
  1. 1

    Initialism of Earth rotation angle (the rotation of the Earth from the Celestial Intermediate Origin that has no instantaneous motion along the equator.)

  2. 2

    Initialism of earned run average, a baseball statistic.

  3. 3

    Initialism of electrically reconfigurable array.

  4. 4

    Initialism of explosive reactive armor.

  5. 5

    UKInitialism of engine room artificer, a Royal Navy position.

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

Era in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchère, période, époque (time period)
GermanÄra, Epoche (time period), Erdzeitalter (geochronologic unit)
Portugueseera, época (time period)
Spanishépoca, era, período, evo (time period)

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 era come from?

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

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

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