markovian
/mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/adjective
markovian is spelled M-A-R-K-O-V-I-A-N: 9 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, markovian means “Alternative letter-case form of Markovian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in markovian?
| Letters | 9: M-A-R-K-O-V-I-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 18 million words; the 127,184th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is markovian?
Markovian appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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 markovian?
- US /mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/
Markovian has 4 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).
What rhymes with markovian?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as markovian from its last stressed vowel (/oʊviən/):
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).
What does markovian mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Markovian.
adjective
- 1
Exhibiting the Markov property, in which the conditional probability distribution of future states of the process, given the present state and all past states, depends only upon the present state and not on any past states.
It is not immediately obvious that a random variable with distribution f(x) can be produced by the Gibbs sequence of (2.3) or that the sequence even converges. That this is so relies on the Markovian nature of the iterations, which we now d
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does markovian come from?
From Markov + -ian, named for the Russian mathematician Andrey Markov.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).