alms
/ɑmz/noun
alms is spelled A-L-M-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, alms means “Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in alms?
| Letters | 4: A-L-M-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,236th 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 alms?
Alms appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th 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 alms?
- UK /ɑːmz/
- US /ɑmz/
- US /ɑlmz/
Alms has one syllable (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-alms.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with alms
Sounds like: arms (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with alms?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as alms (/ɑmz/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: slam.
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).
What does alms mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
She gave $10 weekly to the poor as alms, in an era when $10 was serious money.
noun
- 1
plural of ALM
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Alms in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense something given to the poor as charity:
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.