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room

UK /ɹʊm/noun, verb, adverb

room is spelled R-O-O-M: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 245 times per million words in written English, the 402nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, room means “Space for something, or to carry out an activity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of room is rooms.

How many letters and syllables are in room?

Letters4: R-O-O-M
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing245 times per million words; the 402nd 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 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 room?

Room appears 245 times per million words in written English, the 402nd 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 room?

  • UK /ɹʊm/
  • UK /ɹuːm/
  • British /ɹɵm/

Room 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: En-uk-room.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-room.wav, En-us-room.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with room?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as room from its last stressed vowel (/ʊm/, British pronunciation):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: moor.

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 room

  • rooms plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • rooming participle, present
  • roomed participle, past
  • more room comparative
  • most room superlative

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

What does room mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    archaicAn opportunity or scope (to do something).

  2. 2

    Space for something, or to carry out an activity.

  3. 3

    archaicA particular portion of space.

  4. 4

    Sufficient space for or to do something.

  5. 5

    A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.

  6. 6

    obsoleteA place; a stead.

  7. 7

    A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.

  8. 8

    (One's) bedroom.

    Go to your room!

  9. 9

    Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).

verb

  1. 1

    To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

    Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.

  2. 2

    To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

adverb

  1. 1

    obsoleteFar; at a distance; wide in space or extent.

  2. 2

    Off from the wind.

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoleteWide; spacious; roomy.

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

How do you abbreviate room?

Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of room: RFB, rm, rm..

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

Room in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchespace, place (space), pièce, salle, chambre (division in a building)
GermanRaum, Platz (space), Zimmer, Kammer, Gemach (division in a building)
Portugueselugar (space), cômodo, sala, quarto (division in a building)
Spanishespacio, lugar, cabida, cupo, cabimiento, aforo (space)

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 room come from?

From Middle English roum (“room, space”), from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (“to root; to rip, tear”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, open”).

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

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