schema

Other forms of schema

plural

schemata

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about schema

What does schema mean?

schema means "an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in schema?

schema has 2 syllables: sche-ma. The stress falls on "sche". In IPA it is /ˈskimə/.

What is another word for schema?

Close synonyms include scheme, outline, scheme. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is schema a common word?

schema is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.