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milliamp

noun

milliamp is spelled M-I-L-L-I-A-M-P: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, milliamp means “One thousandth (10⁻³) of an ampere. Symbol: mA” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of milliamp is milliamps.

How many letters and syllables are in milliamp?

Letters8: M-I-L-L-I-A-M-P
In writingabout once in every 79 million words; the 282,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 milliamp?

Milliamp appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 milliamp

  • milliamps plural
  • milli-amp

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does milliamp mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    One thousandth (10⁻³) of an ampere. Symbol: mA.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does milliamp come from?

From milli- + amp.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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