from

UK /ˈfɹɒm/preposition

from is spelled F-R-O-M: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 4,266 times per million words in written English, the 26th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a preposition, from means “Used to indicate source or provenance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in from?

Letters	4: F-R-O-M
Syllables	1
In writing	4,266 times per million words; the 26th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Same letters	form

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 from?

From appears 4,266 times per million words in written English, the 26th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce from?

UK /ˈfɹɒm/
UK [ˈfɹʷɒm]
British /ˈfɹɔm/

From has one syllable.

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

What rhymes with from?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as from (/ɒm/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: form.

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).

What does from mean?

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

preposition

1
Used to indicate source or provenance.
Paul is from New Zealand.
2
Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
This manuscript is from the 1980s.
3
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
4
Indicating a starting point in time.
The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm.
5
Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
Rate your pain from 1 to 10.
6
Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
You can study anything from math to literature.
7
With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
It's hard to tell from here.
8
Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being.
I’ve been doing this from pickney.

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

From in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	de, dans, sur (with the source or provenance of or at)
German	von, aus (with the source or provenance of or at), vor (with the separation, exclusion or…)
Portuguese	de (with the source or provenance of or at)
Spanish	de, de parte de, proveniente de, procedente de (with the source or provenance of or at), desde (with the origin, starting point or initial…)

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 from come from?

From Middle English from (“from”), from Old English from, fram (“forward, from”), from Proto-West Germanic *fram, from Proto-Germanic *fram (“forward, from, away”). Cognate with Old Saxon fram (“from”) and Old High German fram (“from”), Danish frem (“forth, forward”), Danish fra (“from”), Swedish fram (“forth, forward”), Swedish från (“from”), Norwegian Nynorsk fram (“forward”), Norwegian Nynorsk frå (“from”), Icelandic fram (“forward, on”), Icelandic frá (“from”), Albanian pre, prej. More at fro.