clime
/klaɪm/noun
clime is spelled C-L-I-M-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, clime means “A particular region defined by its weather or climate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of clime is climes.
How many letters and syllables are in clime?
| Letters | 5: C-L-I-M-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th 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 clime?
Clime appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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 clime?
- /klaɪm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-clime.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with clime?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as clime.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: melic.
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 clime
- climes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does clime mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A particular region defined by its weather or climate.
After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.
- 2
Climate.
A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.
- 3
The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does clime come from?
Borrowed from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).