myriad
/ˈmɪɹi.æd/noun, adjective
myriad is spelled M-Y-R-I-A-D. The wrong spelling people search most is myraid: about 850 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Myriad is a noun meaning “Ten thousand; 10,000”. The plural of myriad is myriads.
How many letters and syllables are in myriad?
| Letters | 6: M-Y-R-I-A-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.1 times per million words; the 15,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, myraid, about 850 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell myriad?
Myriad is spelled M-Y-R-I-A-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for myriad 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 myriad?
Myriad appears 3.1 times per million words in written English, the 15,146th 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 myriad?
- US /ˈmɪɹi.æd/
- US /ˈmɪɹi.əd/
- British /ˈmɪ(ː)ɹɪjad/
Myriad 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: En-au-myriad.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of myriad
- myriads plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does myriad mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Ten thousand; 10,000
- 2
Synonym of decamillennium: a period of 10000 years.
- 3
A countless number or multitude (of specified things)
Earth hosts a myriad of animals.
adjective
- 1
Multifaceted, having innumerable elements.
"As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad."
- 2
Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous.
Earth hosts myriad animals.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Myriad in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | myriade , nombreux |
| German | Myriade , unzählig , Unmenge, Myriaden, Unzahl, Vielzahl |
| Portuguese | miríade |
| Spanish | miríada |
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 myriad come from?
From French myriade, from Late Latin mȳriadem (accusative of mȳrias), from Ancient Greek μυριάς (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from μυρίος (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”). By surface analysis, myria- + -ad.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).