bizarre
/bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/adjective, noun
bizarre is spelled B-I-Z-A-R-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is bizzare: about 590 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Bizarre is an adjective meaning “Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant…”.
How many letters and syllables are in bizarre?
| Letters | 7: B-I-Z-A-R-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, bizzare, about 590 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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 bizarre?
Bizarre is spelled B-I-Z-A-R-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for bizarre 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 bizarre?
Bizarre appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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 bizarre?
- /bɪˈzɑː(ɹ)/
- /bəˈzɑː(ɹ)/
- /bɪˈzɑɹ/
Bizarre 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-uk-bizarre.ogg, En-us-bizarre.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with bizarre
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: bizarro.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with bizarre?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as bizarre.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: brazier.
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 bizarre
- more bizarre comparative
- bizarrer comparative
- most bizarre superlative
- bizarrest superlative
- bizarres plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bizarre mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
That was a bizarre adventure!
noun
- 1
A carnation having stripes of two distinct colours on the white petals.
- 2
A tulip with a certain pattern of various colored stripes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bizarre in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense strangely unconventional:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bizarre |
| German | bizarr, komisch, seltsam |
| Portuguese | bizarro, estranho |
| Spanish | raro, extraño, estrafalario, bizarro, estrambótico, rocambolesco |
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 bizarre come from?
Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”), then either from Italian bizzarro (“weird, eccentric, frisky”) or, less likely, from Basque bizar (literally “beard”, from the notion that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).