mathematics
/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/noun
mathematics is spelled M-A-T-H-E-M-A-T-I-C-S. The wrong spelling people search most is mathmatics: about 310 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Mathematics is a noun meaning “An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and…”.
How many letters and syllables are in mathematics?
| Letters | 11: M-A-T-H-E-M-A-T-I-C-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, mathmatics, about 310 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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 do you spell mathematics?
Mathematics is spelled M-A-T-H-E-M-A-T-I-C-S. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for mathematics in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is mathematics?
Mathematics appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th 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 mathematics?
- UK /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- US /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- US [mæθ(.ə)ˈmæɾ.ɪks]
Mathematics 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). Recordings: En-us-mathematics.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with mathematics
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 mathematics?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mathematics from its last stressed vowel (/ætɪks/):
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 mathematics mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
- 2
A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
My mathematics is always improving.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate mathematics?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of mathematics: math, math., maths.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mathematics in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense field of study:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mathématiques |
| German | Mathematik |
| Portuguese | matemática |
| Spanish | matemáticas, matemática |
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 mathematics come from?
First use appears c. 1545. From mathematic (noun) + -ics, from Middle English mathematique, methametik, matematik, matamatik, from Old French mathematique, from Latin mathēmatica (“mathematics”), from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “on the matter of that which is learned”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”). Displaced native Old English rīmcræft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
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