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bloom

/blum/noun, verb

bloom is spelled B-L-O-O-M: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bloom means “A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bloom is blooms.

How many letters and syllables are in bloom?

Letters5: B-L-O-O-M
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 bloom?

Bloom appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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 bloom?

  • UK /bluːm/
  • British /blʉwm/
  • US /blum/

Bloom 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-bloom.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with bloom?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bloom from its last stressed vowel (/um/):

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 bloom

  • blooms plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • blooming participle, present
  • bloomed participle, past

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

What does bloom mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.

  2. 2

    Flowers.

  3. 3

    The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.

    The cherry trees are in bloom.

  4. 4

    A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.

    the bloom of youth

  5. 5

    Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.

  6. 6

    The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.

  7. 7

    Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.

  8. 8

    An algal bloom.

  9. 9

    The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.

verb

  1. 1

    To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

  2. 2

    To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

  3. 3

    Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.

  4. 4

    To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.

    Shadows bloomed over the yard.

  5. 5

    Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.

  6. 6

    To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.

  7. 7

    To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.

  8. 8

    To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.

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

Bloom in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfloraison, en fleurs, efflorescence (the state of blossoming), fleur (state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor), pruine, velours (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing…)
GermanReifbelag (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing…), blühen (flourish), Luppe (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by…)
Spanishpruina (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing…), lupa (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by…), blanqueo, blanqueamiento (white area of cocoa butter), florecer (cause to bloom; make flourish)
Portugueselupa (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by…)

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 bloom come from?

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

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

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