tessera
noun
tessera is spelled T-E-S-S-E-R-A: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tessera means “A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tessera is tesserae.
How many letters and syllables are in tessera?
| Letters | 7: T-E-S-S-E-R-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th 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; 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 tessera?
Tessera appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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 tessera?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tessera.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: erastes.
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 tessera
- tesserae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tessera mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
- 2
A complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton.
- 3
rareAn ancient Roman die.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tessera in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense small square piece of stone:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | tésera |
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 tessera come from?
Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).