someone

Other forms of someone

plural

someones·

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 someone

What does someone mean?

someone means "a human being".

How many syllables are in someone?

someone has 2 syllables: som-eone. The stress falls on "som". In IPA it is /ˈsʌmˌwʌn/.

What is another word for someone?

Close synonyms include person, individual, somebody, mortal, soul. 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 someone a common word?

someone 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 someone?

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