enormous
/ɪˈnoɹ.məs/adjective
enormous is spelled E-N-O-R-M-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is enourmous: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 22 of all searches for the word. Enormous is an adjective meaning “Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc”.
How many letters and syllables are in enormous?
| Letters | 8: E-N-O-R-M-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, enourmous, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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).
How do you spell enormous?
Enormous is spelled E-N-O-R-M-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for enormous in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is enormous?
Enormous appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th 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 enormous?
- UK /ɪˈnɔː.məs/
- US /ɪˈnoɹ.məs/
- US /iˈnoɹ.məs/
Enormous has 3 syllables (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-enormous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of enormous
- more enormous comparative
- most enormous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does enormous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
obsoleteDeviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind […].
- 2
obsoleteExceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
- 3
Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
The enormous Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Enormous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense extremely large:
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 enormous come from?
From Latin ēnormis. An assimilated form of ex- (“out of”) + norma (“rule, norm”) + -ous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).