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roman

ro·man/ˈɹəʊmən/adjective, noun

roman is spelled R-O-M-A-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables (ro·man). It appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, roman means “Upright, as opposed to italic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in roman?

Letters5: R-O-M-A-N
Syllables2: ro·man
In writing32 times per million words; the 2,992nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 roman?

Roman appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd 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 roman?

  • /ˈɹəʊmən/

Roman has 2 syllables, split ro·man in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Roman.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with roman?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as roman from its last stressed vowel (/oʊmən/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: manor, moran, norma, maron, morna.

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 roman

  • romans plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does roman mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Upright, as opposed to italic.

  2. 2

    Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.

noun

  1. 1

    One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.

  2. 2

    Ellipsis of roman numeral.

  3. 3

    archaicA novel.

adjective

as Roman
  1. 1

    Of or from Rome.

  2. 2

    Of or from the Roman Empire.

  3. 3

    Of or from the Byzantine Empire.

  4. 4

    Of noble countenance but with little facial expression.

  5. 5

    Supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.

  6. 6

    colloquialUsed to distinguish a Roman numeral from an Arabic numeral in oral discourse.

    You will find the term defined at the end of Roman one.

  7. 7

    A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic. (See roman font.)

  8. 8

    Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church or the Holy See.

noun

as Roman
  1. 1

    A native or resident of Rome.

  2. 2

    A native or resident of the Roman Empire.

  3. 3

    A native or resident of the Byzantine Empire.

    Kars was the capital of the small Armenian kingdom of Vanand, ruled by Gagik (the same name as the sovereign of Ani) from 1029 to 1064, when he surrendered his kingdom to the Romans. In 1053 it was taken by the Seljoukids, probably under th

  4. 4

    The Roman script.

  5. 5

    A single letter or character in Roman type.

  6. 6

    datedA Roman Catholic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate roman?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of roman: rom.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Roman in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishredondo, redondillo, romanillo (upright), redonda, letra redonda, redondilla (upright letter type)
Frenchromain (of or from Rome), Romain, Romaine (a native or resident of Rome)
Germanrömisch (of or from Rome), Römer, Römerin (a native or resident of Rome), lateinisch (of Western character set), katholisch, römisch-katholisch (Roman Catholic)
Portugueseromano (of or from Rome), católico (Roman Catholic), corpo redondo (upright, as opposed to oblique or italic), latino (the Roman script)

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 roman come from?

From Roman.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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