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blooming

UK /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/adjective, adverb, noun, verb

blooming is spelled B-L-O-O-M-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, blooming means “Opening in blossoms; flowering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in blooming?

Letters8: B-L-O-O-M-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is blooming?

Blooming appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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 blooming?

  • UK /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/
  • UK /ˈblʊ.mɪŋ/

Blooming 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-us-blooming.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of blooming

  • more blooming comparative
  • most blooming superlative
  • bloomings plural

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

What does blooming mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Opening in blossoms; flowering.

  2. 2

    Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

  3. 3

    AustraliaIrelandUKA euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

adverb

  1. 1

    AustraliaUKA euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

    My train's late again. Blooming typical.

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something blooms.

  2. 2

    The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

  3. 3

    A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of bloom (a form of bloom)

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

Blooming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchen fleur (opening in blossoms), florissant, florissante (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour), sacré, sacrée (euphemism for "bloody"), fleurissement (blooming)
Germanblühend, in Blüte stehend (opening in blossoms), verflixt, verdammt, verflucht (euphemism for "bloody")
Portugueseflorescência (opening in blossoms)
Spanishfloreciente (opening in blossoms), plancheado (blooming)

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 blooming come from?

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

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

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