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gmail

[ˈd͡ʒiːˌmeɪl]verb

gmail is spelled G-M-A-I-L: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, gmail means “Alternative letter-case form of Gmail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in gmail?

Letters5: G-M-A-I-L
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form
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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 gmail?

Gmail appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 gmail?

  • [ˈd͡ʒiːˌmeɪl]

Gmail has 2 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Gmail.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with gmail?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as gmail.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ligma.

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 gmail

  • gmails present, singular, he/she/it
  • gmailing participle, present
  • gmailed participle, past

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

What does gmail mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Gmail.

noun

as Gmail
  1. 1

    informalA Gmail account.

  2. 2

    informalAn e-mail sent using Gmail.

verb

as Gmail
  1. 1

    informalTo send (someone) an e-mail using Gmail.

    Gmail me!

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

Where does gmail come from?

Blend of Google + mail.

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

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