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domain

do·main/ˌdoʊ̯ˈmeɪ̯n/noun

domain is spelled D-O-M-A-I-N: 6 letters and 2 syllables (do·main). It appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “demesne vs domain” about 210 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, domain means “A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of domain is domains.

How many letters and syllables are in domain?

Letters6: D-O-M-A-I-N
Syllables2: do·main
In writing20 times per million words; the 4,224th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with
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); 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 common is domain?

Domain appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th 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 domain?

  • UK /ˌdəʊˈmeɪ̯n/
  • UK /dəˈmeɪ̯n/
  • US /ˌdoʊ̯ˈmeɪ̯n/

Domain has 2 syllables, split do·main in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-domain.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with domain

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

demesne vs domain210 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with domain?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as domain from its last stressed vowel (/eɪn/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: domina, daimon.

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 domain

  • domains plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does domain mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.

    The king ruled his domain harshly.

  2. 2

    A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

    Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.

  3. 3

    A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

  4. 4

    The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.

  5. 5

    The set A; The subset of A consisting of elements a of A such that there exists an element b in B with (a,b) in R.

  6. 6

    A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

  7. 7

    An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.

  8. 8

    Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Domain in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdomaine (geographic area owned or controlled by a single…), domaine de définition ((mathematics) the set on which a function is…)
GermanDomäne, Gebiet, Bezirk (geographic area owned or controlled by a single…), Bereich (a field or sphere of activity, influence or…)
Portuguesedomínio (geographic area owned or controlled by a single…), área, campo (a field or sphere of activity, influence or…)
Spanishdominio (geographic area owned or controlled by a single…), esfera, ámbito (a field or sphere of activity, influence or…)

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 domain come from?

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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