homie
hom·ie/ˈhoʊ.mi/noun
homie is spelled H-O-M-I-E, 2 syllables: hom·ie. The wrong spelling people search most is hoomie: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 86 of all searches for the word. Homie is a noun meaning “Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown”. The plural of homie is homies.
How many letters and syllables are in homie?
| Letters | 5: H-O-M-I-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: hom·ie |
| In writing | 1.8 times per million words; the 20,629th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hoomie, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell homie?
Homie is spelled H-O-M-I-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 86 of the searches for homie 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 homie?
Homie appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th 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 homie?
- UK /ˈhəʊ.mi/
- US /ˈhoʊ.mi/
Homie has 2 syllables, split hom·ie in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-homie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with homie
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with homie?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as homie from its last stressed vowel (/oʊmi/):
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 homie
- homies plural
- homey
- homee
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does homie mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown.
- 2
A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang.
Hey there, Francis, my homie!
- 3
An inner-city youth.
- 4
Alternative spelling of omi (“man”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Homie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a friend; somebody one often hangs out with:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pote, gros |
| German | Kumpel |
| Portuguese | mano |
| Spanish | cuate, socio, compadre, compinche, (Sinaloa) camarada, consorte |
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 homie come from?
Earliest known reference is in the tune The House of Blue Lights (1946) by Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack, when Morse improvises a spoken-word intro. Equivalent to home + -ie.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).