dome
/dəʊm/noun, verb
dome is spelled D-O-M-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dome means “A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dome is domes.
How many letters and syllables are in dome?
| Letters | 4: D-O-M-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th 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 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 dome?
Dome appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 dome?
- /dəʊm/
Dome 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-au-dome.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dome?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dome.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: mode, demo.
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 dome
- domes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- doming participle, present
- domed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dome mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
geodesic dome
- 2
Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
a cake dome
- 3
informalA person's head.
- 4
slanghead, oral sex
- 5
obsoleteA building; a house; an edifice.
pleasure dome
- 6
Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
steam dome
- 7
A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- 8
A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
verb
- 1
To give a domed shape to.
- 2
colloquialslangTo shoot or hit in the head.
That guy just got domed!
- 3
UScolloquialslangTo perform fellatio on.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of Dhome.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dome in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense architectural element:
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 dome come from?
Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).