womb
/wuːm/noun
womb is spelled W-O-M-B: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, womb means “In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of womb is wombs.
How many letters and syllables are in womb?
| Letters | 4: W-O-M-B |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.3 times per million words; the 12,397th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is womb?
Womb appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th 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 womb?
- /wuːm/
Womb 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-womb.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of womb
- wombs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- wombing participle, present
- wombed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does womb mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
- 2
obsoleteThe abdomen or stomach.
- 3
obsoleteThe stomach of a person or creature.
- 4
A place where something is made or formed.
- 5
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Womb in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | utérus, ventre, matrice, sein, entrailles , moule |
| German | Gebärmutter, Uterus, Mutterleib, Schoß |
| Portuguese | útero, matriz |
| Spanish | vientre , cuna |
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 womb come from?
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).