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boomer

boom·er/ˈbu.mɚ/noun

boomer is spelled B-O-O-M-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables (boom·er). It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boomer means “Something that makes a booming sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of boomer is boomers.

How many letters and syllables are in boomer?

Letters6: B-O-O-M-E-R
Syllables2: boom·er
In writing1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st 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 boomer?

Boomer 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 boomer?

  • UK /ˈbuː.mə/
  • /ˈby.mɑ/
  • US /ˈbu.mɚ/

Boomer has 2 syllables, split boom·er in writing.

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

Words people confuse with boomer

Also written: ok boomer.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with boomer?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as boomer from its last stressed vowel (/uməɹ/):

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 boomer

  • boomers plural

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

What does boomer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Something that makes a booming sound.

  2. 2

    A device used to bind or tighten chain.

  3. 3

    USslangA nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.

  4. 4

    UKA Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).

  5. 5

    An adult male kangaroo.

  6. 6

    A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).

  7. 7

    A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).

  8. 8

    A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.

  9. 9

    informalA baby boomer.

    Boomers came of age in the era of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

  10. 10

    derogatoryslangAn elderly person, regardless of generation.

    I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.

  11. 11

    derogatoryslangA person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.

    I'm such a boomer; I have no idea how to use this phone.

noun

as Boomer
  1. 1

    USA member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement.

  2. 2

    Alternative letter-case form of boomer.

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

Where does boomer come from?

From boom + -er.

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

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