tomorrow
/təˈmɒɹəʊ/adverb, noun
tomorrow is spelled T-O-M-O-R-R-O-W. The wrong spelling people search most is tommorow: about 1,580 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Tomorrow is an adverb meaning “On the day after the present day”.
How many letters and syllables are in tomorrow?
| Letters | 8: T-O-M-O-R-R-O-W |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 105 times per million words; the 1,021st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, tommorow, about 1,580 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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 tomorrow?
Tomorrow is spelled T-O-M-O-R-R-O-W. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for tomorrow 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 tomorrow?
Tomorrow appears 105 times per million words in written English, the 1,021st 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 tomorrow?
- UK /təˈmɒɹəʊ/
- British /təˈmɔɹəw/
- /ðəˈmɒɹæ/
Tomorrow 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: En-us-tomorrow.ogg, En-uk-tomorrow.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Acadienenexil-tomorrow.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with tomorrow
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: to-morrow (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with tomorrow?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tomorrow from its last stressed vowel (/ɒɹəʊ/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: rootworm.
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 tomorrow
- tomorrah
- tomorra
- tomorrows plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tomorrow mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
On the day after the present day.
- 2
At some point in the future; later on
If you don’t get your life on track today, you’re going to be very sorry tomorrow.
- 3
obsoleteOn next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the present (period of time).
Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.
- 4
obsoleteOn the next day (following some date in the past).
To prevent this, a committee for peace was proposed for to-morrow, who heard the ministers and Mr. Anderson upon the heads of the affair, but in vain; when their complaint was given in in Synod, and referred to the next Synod […]
noun
- 1
The day after the present day.
Tomorrow will be sunny.
- 2
A future period or time.
Live for what tomorrow has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate tomorrow?
Wiktionary records 5 abbreviations of tomorrow: tm, tmr, tmrw, tmw, tomoz.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tomorrow in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | demain |
| German | morgen, moorn, murgen , Morgen |
| Portuguese | amanhã |
| Spanish | mañana, cras (disused) |
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 tomorrow come from?
From Middle English tomorwe, tomorwen, from Old English tō morgne (“tomorrow”, adverb), from tō (“at, on”) + morgne (dative of morgen (“morning”)), from Proto-Germanic *murganaz (“morning”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mergʰ- (“to blink, to twinkle”), equivalent to to- + morrow. Compare French demain, Dutch morgen, German morgen, Swedish imorgon or Danish i morgen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).