spam

Other forms of spam

plural

spams·

past tense

spammed·

present participle

spamming·

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 spam

What does spam mean?

spam means "a canned meat made largely from pork". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spam?

spam has 1 syllable: spam. In IPA it is /ˈspæm/.

What is another word for spam?

Close synonyms include junk e-mail. 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 spam a common word?

spam is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.