am

Other forms of am

plural

ams·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about am

What does am mean?

am means "a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in am?

am has 1 syllable: am. In IPA it is /ˈæm/.

What is another word for am?

Close synonyms include americium, atomic number 95, Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is am a common word?

am is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with am?

3 words rhyme with am. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.