bigger
big·ger/ˈbɪɡɚ/adjective, verb
bigger is spelled B-I-G-G-E-R, 2 syllables: big·ger. The wrong spelling people search most is biger: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Bigger is an adjective meaning “comparative form of big: more big”.
How many letters and syllables are in bigger?
| Letters | 6: B-I-G-G-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: big·ger |
| In writing | 55 times per million words; the 1,865th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, biger, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell bigger?
Bigger is spelled B-I-G-G-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for bigger in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is bigger?
Bigger appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th 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 bigger?
- UK /ˈbɪɡəː/
- UK [ˈbɪɡəː]
- US /ˈbɪɡɚ/
Bigger has 2 syllables, split big·ger in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-bigger.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with bigger?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bigger from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɡəɹ/):
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 bigger
- biggers present, singular, he/she/it
- biggering participle, present
- biggered participle, past
- biggah
- bigguh
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bigger mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
comparative form of big: more big
That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger, and most stronger party, […]
verb
- 1
nonstandardrareTo make or become bigger.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).