maya
/ˈmaɪə/noun
maya is spelled M-A-Y-A: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, maya means “Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in maya?
| Letters | 4: M-A-Y-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.4 times per million words; the 8,669th 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 maya?
Maya appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th 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 maya?
- /ˈmaɪə/
Maya 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Maya.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with maya?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as maya.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: amay.
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 maya mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods.
- 2
The power by which the universe is made to appear; the illusion of the phenomenal world, as opposed to its true or spiritual reality.
noun
- 1
a flourishing Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala from the 3rd century to the 9th century.
- 2
various Mesoamerican peoples that continued in competing civilizations from the 10th century onward until conquered by Spain
- 3
various Mesoamerican peoples living in the Spanish Empire, and now parts of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
- 4
a variety of Mesoamerican peoples with farming from around 1000 BC onward, who developed a large civilization from the 3rd century onward
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Maya in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Maja, Maya , Majakultur, Mayakultur |
| Portuguese | maia |
| Spanish | maya |
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 maya come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit माया (māyā).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).