prelims
noun
prelims is spelled P-R-E-L-I-M-S: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, prelims means “The preliminary front matter of a book; all content preceding the main text or work itself” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in prelims?
| Letters | 7: P-R-E-L-I-M-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 47,633rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is prelims?
Prelims appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd 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 prelims?
Prelims 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).
What rhymes with prelims?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as prelims.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: simpler.
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).
What does prelims mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of prelim
- 2
The preliminary front matter of a book; all content preceding the main text or work itself.
- 3
Preliminary examinations taken as a whole, as sat by an individual or year group.
Are you done with prelims yet?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).