matra
noun
matra is spelled M-A-T-R-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, matra means “In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of matra is matras.
How many letters and syllables are in matra?
| Letters | 5: M-A-T-R-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th 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 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 matra?
Matra appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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 matra?
Matra has 2 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 matra?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as matra.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: trama.
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 matra
- matras plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does matra mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
- 2
In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
- 3
The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
- 4
An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does matra come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).