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iman

noun

iman is spelled I-M-A-N: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “imam vs iman” about 40 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, iman means “Pious adherence to the Islamic faith” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of iman is imans.

How many letters and syllables are in iman?

Letters4: I-M-A-N
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 37,459th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people 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); 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 common is iman?

Iman appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th 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 iman?

    Iman 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 iman

    Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

    Also written: imam.

    Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    What rhymes with iman?

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

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: main, mina, mani, amin, inam.

    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 iman

    • imans plural

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

    What does iman mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      Pious adherence to the Islamic faith.

    2. 2

      A believer in the Islamic faith.

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

    Where does iman come from?

    Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

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

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