matroid
noun
matroid is spelled M-A-T-R-O-I-D: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, matroid means “A structure that captures the essence of a notion of "independence" that generalizes linear independence in vector spaces and acyclicality in graphs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of matroid is matroids.
How many letters and syllables are in matroid?
| Letters | 7: M-A-T-R-O-I-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 35 million words; the 182,517th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is matroid?
Matroid appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).
Forms of matroid
- matroids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does matroid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A structure that captures the essence of a notion of "independence" that generalizes linear independence in vector spaces and acyclicality in graphs.
A matroid can be defined in terms of bases. A matroid consists of a ground set as well as a set of bases which is a nonempty subset of the power set of the ground set.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Matroid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | matroïde |
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 matroid come from?
From matrix + -oid. They were so named by Hassler Whitney in 1935 in an article titled “On the abstract properties of linear dependence”.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).