bigram
/ˈbaɪ.ɡɹæm/noun
bigram is a noun meaning “An n-gram consisting of two items from a sequence; a 2-gram” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-G-R-A-M and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bigram is bigrams.
What does bigram mean?
noun
- 1
An n-gram consisting of two items from a sequence; a 2-gram.
bigram model
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bigram?
- US /ˈbaɪ.ɡɹæm/
Bigram 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bigram.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bigram
- bigrams plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bigram?
Bigram appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).
Where does bigram come from?
From bi- + -gram.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).