poem
/ˈpəʊ.ɪm/noun
poem is spelled P-O-E-M. The wrong spelling people search most is peom: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 43 of all searches for the word. Poem is a noun meaning “A literary piece written in verse”. The plural of poem is poems.
How many letters and syllables are in poem?
| Letters | 4: P-O-E-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, peom, about 170 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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 do you spell poem?
Poem is spelled P-O-E-M. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 43 of the searches for poem 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 poem?
Poem appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th 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 poem?
- UK /ˈpəʊ.ɪm/
- UK [ˈpʰəwɪm]
- UK /ˈpəʊ.əm/
Poem 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-poem.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with poem?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as poem (/əʊɪm/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: mope, pome.
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 poem
- poems plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does poem mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A literary piece written in verse.
- 2
A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
- 3
A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Poem in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | poème |
| German | Gedicht, Poem , Dichtung |
| Portuguese | poema, poesia |
| Spanish | poema, poesía, oda |
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 poem come from?
From Middle French poème, from Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make”). Widely displaced English leed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).