millibar
noun
millibar is a noun meaning “A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100 pascals, used primarily to report atmospheric pressure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-I-L-L-I-B-A-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of millibar is millibars.
What does millibar mean?
noun
- 1
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100 pascals, used primarily to report atmospheric pressure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce millibar?
Millibar 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).
Forms of millibar
- millibars plural
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How common is millibar?
Millibar appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).
Millibar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense non-SI unit of pressure:
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Where does millibar come from?
From milli- + bar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).