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parousia

noun

parousia is spelled P-A-R-O-U-S-I-A: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, parousia means “The second coming of Christ” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in parousia?

Letters8: P-A-R-O-U-S-I-A
In writingabout once in every 30 million words; the 167,786th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is parousia?

Parousia appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).

What does parousia mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The second coming of Christ.

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

Parousia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Second Coming of Christ:

LanguageWords
Frenchparousie
GermanParusie
Spanishparusía

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 parousia come from?

From Ancient Greek παρουσία (parousía, “presence”).

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

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