tom

Other forms of tom

plural

toms·

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 tom

What does tom mean?

tom means "male cat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tom?

tom has 1 syllable: tom. In IPA it is /ˈtɑm/.

What is another word for tom?

Close synonyms include tomcat, turkey cock, gobbler, tom turkey. 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 tom a common word?

tom 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.