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goldmine

noun

goldmine is spelled G-O-L-D-M-I-N-E: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, goldmine means “Alternative form of gold mine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of goldmine is goldmines.

How many letters and syllables are in goldmine?

Letters8: G-O-L-D-M-I-N-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 goldmine?

Goldmine appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th 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 goldmine?

    Goldmine 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).

    Words people confuse with goldmine

    Also written: gold mine (one word or two).

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    What rhymes with goldmine?

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

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: modeling.

    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 goldmine

    • goldmines plural

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

    What does goldmine mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      Alternative form of gold mine

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

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