VMA
"vma" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“VMA” is uncommon English (frequency #56,521 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,521
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of vanillylmandelic acid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vma · VMA · English
VMA · rank #56,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,521
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vociferous
Nearest frequency peer: vociferous (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “VMA”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- vesper
vesper
43,485 corpus weight
- VFR
VFR
43,484 corpus weight
- vig
vig
43,482 corpus weight
- VMA
VMA
43,480 corpus weight
- vociferous
vociferous
43,479 corpus weight
- Walford
Walford
43,474 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “VMA” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | VMA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “VMA” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
VMA is uncommon English at frequency #56,521 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
VMA has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is VMA, spelled V-M-A.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of vanillylmandelic acid.
- 2Initialism of Video Music Award.
- 3Initialism of virtual memory address.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how VMA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After Miley Cyrus’s ah, memorable performance at the 2013 VMAs, it seems like everyone suddenly got obsessed with twerking.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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