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teras

noun

teras is spelled T-E-R-A-S: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, teras means “a grossly malformed fetus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of teras is terata.

How many letters and syllables are in teras?

Letters5: T-E-R-A-S
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 teras?

Teras appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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 rhymes with teras?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as teras.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: rates, tears, stare, taser, aster, sater, setar.

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 teras

  • terata plural

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

What does teras mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    a grossly malformed fetus

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

Where does teras come from?

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τέρας (téras).

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

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