brome
/bɹəʊm/noun
brome is spelled B-R-O-M-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, brome means “Any grass of the genus Bromus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of brome is bromes.
How many letters and syllables are in brome?
| Letters | 5: B-R-O-M-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 81,375th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is brome?
Brome appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th 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 brome?
- /bɹəʊm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-brome.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with brome?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as brome.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ombre.
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 brome
- bromes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does brome mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any grass of the genus Bromus.
- 2
obsoletebromine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Brome in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense grass of Bromus:
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 brome come from?
From the genus name, New Latin Bromus, from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “oat, wild oat”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).