wiki
/ˈwɪki/noun, verb
wiki is spelled W-I-K-I: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wiki means “A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wiki is wikis.
How many letters and syllables are in wiki?
| Letters | 4: W-I-K-I |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.1 times per million words; the 12,764th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 wiki?
Wiki appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th 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 wiki?
- /ˈwɪki/
- /ˈwiːki/
- British /ˈwɪkɪj/
Wiki 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-wiki.ogg, En-au-wiki.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with wiki
Sounds like: wicky (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with wiki?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as wiki.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: kiwi.
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 wiki
- wikis plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- wikiing participle, present
- wikied participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wiki mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
He spent time editing articles on the wiki.
verb
- 1
To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
- 2
To contribute to a wiki.
- 3
To participate in the wiki-based production of.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Wiki in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense collaborative website:
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 wiki come from?
First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).