anemone
a·nem·o·ne/əˈnɛməni/noun
anemone is spelled A-N-E-M-O-N-E, 4 syllables: a·nem·o·ne. The wrong spelling people search most is anenome: about 580 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Anemone is a noun meaning “Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower”. The plural of anemone is anemones.
How many letters and syllables are in anemone?
| Letters | 7: A-N-E-M-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: a·nem·o·ne |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 49,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, anenome, about 580 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell anemone?
Anemone is spelled A-N-E-M-O-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for anemone in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is anemone?
Anemone appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th 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 anemone?
- US /əˈnɛməni/
- Australia /əˈneməni/
- /əˈnɛməne/
Anemone has 4 syllables, split a·nem·o·ne in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-anemone.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-anemone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with anemone?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as anemone from its last stressed vowel (/ɛməni/):
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 anemone
- anemones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does anemone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
- 2
A sea anemone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anemone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any plant of genus Anemone:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anémone |
| German | Windröschen, Anemone |
| Portuguese | anêmona, anêmone, anémona, anémone |
| Spanish | anémona, anemona, anemone |
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 anemone come from?
From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of”). Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).