phenom
/ˈfiːnɒm/noun
phenom is spelled P-H-E-N-O-M. The wrong spelling people search most is pheenom: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 217 of all searches for the word. Phenom is a noun meaning “Someone or something that is phenomenal, especially a promising young player in sports like baseball…”. The plural of phenom is phenoms.
How many letters and syllables are in phenom?
| Letters | 6: P-H-E-N-O-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 45,363rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pheenom, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell phenom?
Phenom is spelled P-H-E-N-O-M. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 217 of the searches for phenom 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 phenom?
Phenom appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd 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 phenom?
- /ˈfiːnɒm/
- /fəˈnɒm/
Phenom 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-phenom.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of phenom
- phenoms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does phenom mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone or something that is phenomenal, especially a promising young player in sports like baseball, American football, basketball, tennis, and golf.
- 2
One who is hip and fashionable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does phenom come from?
Clipping of phenomenon (“remarkable occurrence”). American English, c. 1890s.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).