warm

/wɔɹm/adjective, verb, noun

warm is spelled W-A-R-M: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 51 times per million words in written English, the 1,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, warm means “Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in warm?

Letters	4: W-A-R-M
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	51 times per million words; the 1,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	form reform inform transform more

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 warm?

Warm appears 51 times per million words in written English, the 1,993rd most frequent word form in the list.

warm0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce warm?

UK /wɔːm/
/waːm/
US /wɔɹm/

Warm 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-us-warm.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with warm?

10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as warm from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹm/):

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 warm

warmer comparative
warmest superlative
warms present, singular, he/she/it, plural
warming participle, present
warmed participle, past

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

What does warm mean?

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

adjective

1
Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
The tea is still warm.
2
Friendly and with affection.
We have a warm friendship.
3
Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
4
informalClose to a goal or correct answer.
Earlier you were way off, but now you're getting warmer.
5
Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
6
Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
a warm piano sound
7
archaicArdent, zealous.
a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
8
datedinformalWell off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.

verb

1
To make or keep warm.
2
To become warm, to heat up.
My socks are warming by the fire.
3
(sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
He is warming to the idea.
4
To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
5
To become ardent or animated.
The speaker warms as he proceeds.
6
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
7
To give emotional warmth to a person.
8
colloquialTo beat or spank.

noun

1
colloquialThe act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?