prom
/pɹɑm/noun, verb
prom is spelled P-R-O-M: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, prom means “A promenade concert” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of prom is proms.
How many letters and syllables are in prom?
| Letters | 4: P-R-O-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th 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 prom?
Prom appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 prom?
- US /pɹɑm/
- UK /pɹɒm/
Prom 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-prom.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-prom.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with prom?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as prom from its last stressed vowel (/ɑm/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: romp.
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 prom
- proms plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- promming participle, present
- prommed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prom mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
UKA promenade concert.
- 2
UKA promenade.
- 3
USA formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g., near the end of the academic year.
Would you like to be my prom date?
verb
- 1
informalTo attend a prom.
noun
- 1
Acronym of programmable read-only memory, a chip that can be programmed one or more times (depending on the type) and generally cannot be re-programmed without special equipment (if at all); once programmed and installed in a device, it functions as a read-only chip (as if it had been hard-wired to function that way).
- 2
Initialism of prelabor rupture of membranes.
- 3
Initialism of passive range of motion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prom in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a formal ball:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bal de promo, bal des finissants, bal du printemps |
| German | Ball, Abschlussball, Prom, Promenade, Abiball |
| Portuguese | baile de formatura |
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 prom come from?
Clipping of promenade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).