wyrm
/wɝm/noun
wyrm is spelled W-Y-R-M: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wyrm means “A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wyrm is wyrms.
How many letters and syllables are in wyrm?
| Letters | 4: W-Y-R-M |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 20 million words; the 134,976th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
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 wyrm?
Wyrm appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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 wyrm?
- UK /wɜːm/
- US /wɝm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-worm.ogg, En-au-worm.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-worm.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with wyrm
Sounds like: worm (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with wyrm?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wyrm from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹm/):
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 wyrm
- wyrms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wyrm mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.
- 2
A sea serpent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does wyrm come from?
Learned borrowing from Old English wyrm. Doublet of worm, which was inherited.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).