transom

Other forms of transom

plural

transoms·

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 transom

What does transom mean?

transom means "a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transom?

transom has 2 syllables: tran-som. The stress falls on "tran". In IPA it is /ˈtɹænsəm/.

What is another word for transom?

Close synonyms include transom window, fanlight, traverse. 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 transom a common word?

transom is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.