litre
li·tre/ˈli.tɚ/noun
litre is spelled L-I-T-R-E: 5 letters and 2 syllables (li·tre). It appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “liter vs litre” about 590 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, litre means “The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbol: L, l, or ℓ” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of litre is litres.
How many letters and syllables are in litre?
| Letters | 5: L-I-T-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: li·tre |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,928th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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); 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 litre?
Litre appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th 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 litre?
- UK /ˈliːtə/
- US /ˈli.tɚ/
- [ˈli.ɾɚ]
Litre has 2 syllables, split li·tre in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-litre.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with litre
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with litre?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as litre from its last stressed vowel (/itəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: liter, tiler.
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 litre
- litres plural
- liter US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does litre mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbol: L, l, or ℓ.
Holonyms: kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre
- 2
informalA measure of volume equivalent to a litre.
- 3
Lithraea caustica, a Chilean tree or bush.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Litre in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense unit of fluid measure:
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 litre come from?
From French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Related to Latin lībra. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, livre, and rottol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).