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bluffer

/ˈblʌfɚ/noun, adjective

bluffer is spelled B-L-U-F-F-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bluffer means “one who bluffs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bluffer is bluffers.

How many letters and syllables are in bluffer?

Letters7: B-L-U-F-F-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th 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 bluffer?

Bluffer appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 bluffer?

  • US /ˈblʌfɚ/
  • UK /ˈblʌfə/

Bluffer 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).

What rhymes with bluffer?

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

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 bluffer

  • bluffers plural

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

What does bluffer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    one who bluffs

adjective

  1. 1

    comparative form of bluff: more bluff (a form of bluff)

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

Bluffer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchbluffeur

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 bluffer come from?

From bluff + -er.

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

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