tesla
/ˈtɛslə/noun
tesla is spelled T-E-S-L-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tesla means “In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tesla is teslas.
How many letters and syllables are in tesla?
| Letters | 5: T-E-S-L-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tesla?
Tesla appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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 tesla?
- US /ˈtɛslə/
- UK /ˈtɛslə/
- UK /ˈtɛzlə/
Tesla has 2 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: En-us-tesla.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with tesla?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tesla (/ɛslə/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: least, steal, tales, slate, stale, lates, stela.
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 tesla
- teslas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tesla mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity.
noun
- 1
A car manufactured by Tesla, Inc., a battery electric vehicle (BEV) automaker founded in 2003.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tesla in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density:
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 tesla come from?
Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, from Serbo-Croatian Tesla /Тесла.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).