symmetric
/sɪˈmɛt.ɹɪk/adjective
symmetric is spelled S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is symettric: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 357 of all searches for the word. Symmetric is an adjective meaning “Synonym of symmetrical”.
How many letters and syllables are in symmetric?
| Letters | 9: S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,073rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, symettric, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 symmetric?
Symmetric is spelled S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 362 of the searches for symmetric 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 symmetric?
Symmetric appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd 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 symmetric?
- US /sɪˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
- Australia /sɪˈmet.ɹɪk/
Symmetric 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-symmetric.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-symmetric.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with symmetric?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as symmetric from its last stressed vowel (/ɛtɹɪk/):
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 symmetric
- more symmetric comparative
- most symmetric superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does symmetric mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Synonym of symmetrical
- 2
Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRy if and only if yRx for all members x and y of S (that is, if the relation holds between any element and a second, it also holds between the second and the first).
"Is a sibling of" is a symmetric relation.
- 3
Using the same key (or keys that are trivially related) for both encryption and decryption.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Symmetric in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of a relation R on a set S, such that xRy if and only if yRx for all members x a:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | symétrique |
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 symmetric come from?
From symmetry + -ic, from Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).