noria
/ˈnɔɹ.i.ə/noun
noria is spelled N-O-R-I-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, noria means “A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of noria is norias.
How many letters and syllables are in noria?
| Letters | 5: N-O-R-I-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is noria?
Noria appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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 noria?
- UK /ˈnɔː.ɹɪə/
- US /ˈnɔɹ.i.ə/
Noria has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-noria.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with noria?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as noria from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹiə/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: arion, raion, oiran.
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 noria
- norias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does noria mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
- 2
Any mechanism using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Noria in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 noria come from?
From Spanish noria, from Arabic نَاعُورَة (nāʕūra), from Classical Syriac ܢܥܘܪܬܐ (nāʿōrtāʾ, “water wheel; growler”), from ܢܥܪ (nʿar, “to roar, growl, bray”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).