nome
/noʊm/noun, interjection
nome is spelled N-O-M-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nome means “A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nome is nomes.
How many letters and syllables are in nome?
| Letters | 4: N-O-M-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 43,187th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 nome?
Nome appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th 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 nome?
- UK /nəʊm/
- US /noʊm/
Nome has one syllable (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-nome.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nome?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nome from its last stressed vowel (/oʊm/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nemo, omen, mone, meon.
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 nome
- nomes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nome mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.
- 2
A territorial division of ancient Egypt.
- 3
A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.
- 4
obsoleteA term in an algebraic expression.
- 5
A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described.
interjection
- 1
USAlternative form of no'm (“no ma'am”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nome in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense territorial division of ancient Egypt:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | nomo |
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 nome come from?
From French nome, from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “district”), from νέμω (némō, “to divide”). Doublet of nomos.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).