bacon
/ˈbeɪ.kən/noun
bacon is spelled B-A-C-O-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bacon means “Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bacon is bacons.
How many letters and syllables are in bacon?
| Letters | 5: B-A-C-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is bacon?
Bacon appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce bacon?
- /ˈbeɪ.kən/
Bacon has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-bacon.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with bacon?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as bacon.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: banco.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of bacon
- bacons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bacon mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
- 2
Such meat from the belly specifically.
- 3
Thin slices of the above in long strips.
- 4
A similar product made without meat, or from meat other than pork.
beef bacon; vegetarian bacon
- 5
derogatoryslangThe police or spies.
Run! It's the bacon!
- 6
slangRoad rash.
- 7
archaicA saucisse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate bacon?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of bacon: BEC, BLT.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bacon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cut of meat:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lard, lardon, bacon |
| German | Speck, Bauchspeck, Bacon |
| Portuguese | toucinho defumado, bacon |
| Spanish | tocino, beicon, tocineta, panceta ahumada, bacón |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bacon come from?
From Middle English bacoun (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun (“ham, flitch, strip of lard”), from Old Low Frankish *bakō (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (“back”), an extension of *baką, whence English back, which see for more. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).