prominence
/ˈpɹɑ.mɪ.nəns/noun
prominence is spelled P-R-O-M-I-N-E-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is prominance: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Prominence is a noun meaning “The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent”. The plural of prominence is prominences.
How many letters and syllables are in prominence?
| Letters | 10: P-R-O-M-I-N-E-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, prominance, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 prominence?
Prominence is spelled P-R-O-M-I-N-E-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for prominence 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 prominence?
Prominence appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 prominence?
- UK /ˈpɹɒm.ɪ.nəns/
- US /ˈpɹɑ.mɪ.nəns/
Prominence has 3 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-prominence.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with prominence?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as prominence from its last stressed vowel (/ɑmɪnəns/):
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 prominence
- prominences plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prominence mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
- 2
Relative importance.
- 3
A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
- 4
Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
- 5
A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prominence in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | proéminence , protubérance |
| Spanish | prominencia , protuberancia |
| German | Protuberanz |
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 prominence come from?
From obsolete French prominence (compare proéminence), from Latin prominentia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).