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UMA

noun

UMA is spelled U-M-A: 3 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, UMA means “Initialism of unified memory access” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of UMA is UMAs or Umas.

How many letters and syllables are in UMA?

Letters3: U-M-A
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 32,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is UMA?

UMA appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th 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 UMA?

    UMA 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).

    Forms of UMA

    • UMAs plural
    • Umas plural

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

    What does UMA mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      Initialism of unified memory access.

    2. 2

      datedInitialism of upper memory area.

    3. 3

      Initialism of union membership agreement.

    4. 4

      Initialism of unidentified mysterious animal.

    noun

    as Uma
    1. 1

      slangAny of the horse girl characters from Umamusume.

      Agnes Tachyon is my favorite Uma.

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

    Where does UMA come from?

    From the name of the Umamusume: Pretty Derby franchise, from Japanese 馬 (uma, “a horse”) + 娘 (musume, “a girl”).

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

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