mechanics
/məˈkænɪks/noun
mechanics is spelled M-E-C-H-A-N-I-C-S. The wrong spelling people search most is mchanics: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 400 of all searches for the word. Mechanics is a noun meaning “The branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass”.
How many letters and syllables are in mechanics?
| Letters | 9: M-E-C-H-A-N-I-C-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mchanics, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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 mechanics?
Mechanics is spelled M-E-C-H-A-N-I-C-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 404 of the searches for mechanics 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 mechanics?
Mechanics appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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 mechanics?
- US /məˈkænɪks/
Mechanics has 3 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)-Denendaden-mechanics.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mechanics?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as mechanics (/ænɪks/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: mischance.
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 mechanics mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass.
- 2
The design and construction of machines.
- 3
Spelling and punctuation.
- 4
Operation in general; workings.
the mechanics of a board game
- 5
plural of mechanic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate mechanics?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of mechanics: mech, mech..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mechanics in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a branch of physics:
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 mechanics come from?
From Latin mēchanicus, from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “machine, tool”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).