millimeter
/ˈmɪləˌmitɚ/noun
millimeter is spelled M-I-L-L-I-M-E-T-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is milimeter: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Millimeter is a noun meaning “US spelling of millimetre”. The plural of millimeter is millimeters.
How many letters and syllables are in millimeter?
| Letters | 10: M-I-L-L-I-M-E-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,463rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, milimeter, about 220 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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 millimeter?
Millimeter is spelled M-I-L-L-I-M-E-T-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for millimeter 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 millimeter?
Millimeter appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd 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 millimeter?
- US /ˈmɪləˌmitɚ/
- US [ˈmɪləˌmiɾɚ]
Millimeter 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). Recordings: En-us-millimetre.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-millimeter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with millimeter
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: millimetre.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with millimeter?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as millimeter (/ɪləmitəɹ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: millimetre.
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 millimeter
- millimeters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does millimeter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USUS spelling of millimetre.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate millimeter?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of millimeter: mil, mill.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does millimeter come from?
From French millimètre, as if milli- + meter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).