BOM
/bɑm/noun
BOM is spelled B-O-M: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,537th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, BOM means “Acronym of bill of materials” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of BOM is BOMs or BoMs.
How many letters and syllables are in BOM?
| Letters | 3: B-O-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.2 times per million words; the 18,537th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is BOM?
BOM appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,537th 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 BOM?
- US /bɑm/
BOM 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-bomb.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with BOM
Sounds like: balm, bomb (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with BOM?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as BOM from its last stressed vowel (/ɑm/):
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 BOM
- BOMs plural
- BoMs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does BOM mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Acronym of bill of materials.
- 2
Acronym of byte order mark.
- 3
Acronym of business-office must (“a story that must be published at the behest of the publication's business office”).
- 4
Initialism of Book of Mormon.
noun
- 1
Initialism of bill of materials.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).