gamma
gam·ma/ˈɡæ.mə/noun
gamma is spelled G-A-M-M-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables (gam·ma). It appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gamma means “The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gamma is gammas.
How many letters and syllables are in gamma?
| Letters | 5: G-A-M-M-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: gam·ma |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 gamma?
Gamma appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 gamma?
- /ˈɡæ.mə/
Gamma has 2 syllables, split gam·ma in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-gamma.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with gamma?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as gamma.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: magma.
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 gamma
- gammas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does gamma mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
- 2
The letter Ɣɣ, used in the alphabets of several African languages, and in lowercase form in the IPA to represent a voiced velar fricative.
- 3
A gamma ray or gamma-ray photon.
- 4
The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
- 5
A constant approximately equal to 0.57721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
- 6
A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
- 7
A non-SI unit of measure of mass, equal to 1 microgramme.
- 8
Slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Gamma in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense third letter of the Greek alphabet:
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 gamma come from?
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γάμμα (gámma). Doublet of gimel.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).