symmetry
/ˈsɪm.ɪ.tɹi/noun
symmetry is spelled S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is symetry: about 350 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Symmetry is a noun meaning “Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis”. The plural of symmetry is symmetries.
How many letters and syllables are in symmetry?
| Letters | 8: S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,731st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, symetry, about 350 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 symmetry?
Symmetry is spelled S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for symmetry 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 symmetry?
Symmetry appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st 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 symmetry?
- UK /ˈsɪm.ɪ.tɹaɪ/
- US /ˈsɪm.ɪ.tɹi/
Symmetry 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-symmetry.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with symmetry?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as symmetry from its last stressed vowel (/ɪmɪtɹi/):
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 symmetry
- symmetries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does symmetry mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
- 2
The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Symmetry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis:
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 symmetry come from?
From Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría), from σύμμετρος (súmmetros, “symmetrical”), from σύν (sún, “with”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). By surface analysis, sym- + -metry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).