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blazer

blaz·er/ˈbleɪzəɹ/noun

blazer is spelled B-L-A-Z-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables (blaz·er). It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blazer means “A very bright or hot day” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blazer is blazers.

How many letters and syllables are in blazer?

Letters6: B-L-A-Z-E-R
Syllables2: blaz·er
In writing1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is blazer?

Blazer appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th 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 blazer?

  • UK /ˈbleɪzə/
  • US /ˈbleɪzəɹ/

Blazer has 2 syllables, split blaz·er in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-blazer.wav, En-au-blazer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with blazer?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as blazer from its last stressed vowel (/eɪzəɹ/):

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 blazer

  • blazers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does blazer mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    informalA very bright or hot day.

  2. 2

    CanadaUSA dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp.

  3. 3

    A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower.

  4. 4

    obsoleteA comet.

  5. 5

    A tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals.

  6. 6

    Any suit-style jacket for women.

  7. 7

    UKslangAn older member of a sports club, often with conservative or old-fashioned views.

  8. 8

    A person or thing that blazes a trail; a pioneer, a trailblazer.

    a blazer of paths

  9. 9

    archaicobsoleteOne who blazes (“announces or proclaims something publicly”); an announcer, a herald, a proclaimer.

  10. 10

    obsoleteSynonym of blazoner (“one who blazons (“describes”) coats of arms; a herald”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Blazer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense lightweight semi-formal jacket:

LanguageWords
Frenchblazer
GermanBlazer
Portugueseblazer, blêizer
Spanishblazer, saco, vestón

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 blazer come from?

From blaze (“to reflect or send forth a bright light; (figurative) to be conspicuous; etc.”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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