boasting
/ˈboʊstɪŋ/noun, verb
boasting is spelled B-O-A-S-T-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boasting means “The making of boasts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of boasting is boastings.
How many letters and syllables are in boasting?
| Letters | 8: B-O-A-S-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 boasting?
Boasting appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st 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 boasting?
- US /ˈboʊstɪŋ/
Boasting 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-boasting.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with boasting?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as boasting from its last stressed vowel (/oʊstɪŋ/):
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 boasting
- boastings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does boasting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The making of boasts.
- 2
An individual boast or bout of boasting.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of boast
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Boasting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the making of boasts:
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.