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milliliter

noun

milliliter is spelled M-I-L-L-I-L-I-T-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is mililiter: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Milliliter is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of millilitre”. The plural of milliliter is milliliters.

How many letters and syllables are in milliliter?

Letters10: M-I-L-L-I-L-I-T-E-R
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 79,518th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, mililiter, about 90 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 milliliter?

Milliliter is spelled M-I-L-L-I-L-I-T-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for milliliter in either form.

milliliterthe right spelling330 searches a month
mililitera missing l90 searches a month

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 milliliter?

Milliliter appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 79,518th 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 milliliter?

    Milliliter has 4 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).

    What rhymes with milliliter?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as milliliter.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: millilitre.

    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).

    Forms of milliliter

    • milliliters plural

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

    What does milliliter mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      USAlternative spelling of millilitre.

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

    How do you abbreviate milliliter?

    Wiktionary records one abbreviation of milliliter: mil.

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

    Where does milliliter come from?

    From milli- + liter.

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

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