member
mem·ber/ˈmɛm.bɚ/noun
member is spelled M-E-M-B-E-R, 2 syllables: mem·ber. The wrong spelling people search most is memeber: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 72 of all searches for the word. Member is a noun meaning “One who belongs to a group”. The plural of member is members.
How many letters and syllables are in member?
| Letters | 6: M-E-M-B-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: mem·ber |
| In writing | 151 times per million words; the 679th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, memeber, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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 member?
Member is spelled M-E-M-B-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 72 of the searches for member 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 member?
Member appears 151 times per million words in written English, the 679th 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 member?
- UK /ˈmɛm.bə/
- US /ˈmɛm.bɚ/
- /ˈmɪ̟m.bɚ/
Member has 2 syllables, split mem·ber in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-member.ogg, En-au-member.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with member?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as member from its last stressed vowel (/ɛmbəɹ/):
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 member
- members plural
- 'members present, singular, he/she/it
- 'membering participle, present
- 'membered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does member mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who belongs to a group.
- 2
A part of a whole.
The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
- 3
Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
- 4
The penis.
- 5
One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
- 6
An element of a set.
- 7
Australiathe judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
- 8
A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate member?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of member: mem.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Member in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | membre |
| German | Mitglied , Glied |
| Portuguese | membro, sócio |
| Spanish | miembro, integrante , miembro viril |
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 member come from?
From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus. Coexists with native limb, from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”). Mostly displaced lith (“limb, joint, member”), from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”), which still survives in British dialect.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).