blare
/blɛ(ə)ɹ/verb, noun
blare is spelled B-L-A-R-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, blare means “To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in blare?
| Letters | 5: B-L-A-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 60,074th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 blare?
Blare appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th 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 blare?
- UK /blɛə/
- US /blɛ(ə)ɹ/
- Australia /bleː/
Blare has one syllable (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-us-blare.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with blare
Sounds like: Blair (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with blare?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as blare from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: baler.
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 blare
- blares present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- blaring participle, present
- blared participle, past
- blear
- blair
- bleir
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does blare mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
- 2
To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
- 3
To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
- 4
To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
noun
- 1
A loud sound.
I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
- 2
Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
- 3
A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Blare in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | plärren , Geplärre |
| French | beuglement, vacarme , brailler, hurler, beugler , brillance |
| Portuguese | clangor, estrondo , retumbar |
| Spanish | estruendo, estrépido , resonar |
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 blare come from?
The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren). The noun is derived from the verb.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).