anonymous
/əˈnɑ.nə.məs/adjective
anonymous is spelled A-N-O-N-Y-M-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is annonymous: about 290 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Anonymous is an adjective meaning “Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species”.
How many letters and syllables are in anonymous?
| Letters | 9: A-N-O-N-Y-M-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,407th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, annonymous, about 290 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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 anonymous?
Anonymous is spelled A-N-O-N-Y-M-O-U-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for anonymous 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 anonymous?
Anonymous appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th 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 anonymous?
- UK /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/
- US /əˈnɑ.nə.məs/
- Australia /əˈnɔn.ə.məs/
Anonymous has 4 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-anonymous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with anonymous?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as anonymous from its last stressed vowel (/ɑnəməs/):
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 anonymous
- more anonymous comparative
- most anonymous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does anonymous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species .
- 2
Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible.
an anonymous pamphlet
- 3
Of unknown name; whose name is withheld
an anonymous author
- 4
Lacking individuality.
an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate anonymous?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of anonymous: anon, anon., anonym..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anonymous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 anonymous come from?
Borrowed into English around 1600 from Late Latin anonymus, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νώνῠμος (ănṓnŭmos, “without name”), from ᾰ̓ν- (ăn-, “un-”) with ὄνῠμᾰ (ónŭmă), Aeolic and Doric dialectal form of ὄνομᾰ (ónomă, “name”). English equivalent anonym + -ous, its full etymology being an- + -onym + -ous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).