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boon

/buːn/noun, adjective

boon is spelled B-O-O-N: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boon means “A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of boon is boons.

How many letters and syllables are in boon?

Letters4: B-O-O-N
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th 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 boon?

Boon appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th 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 boon?

  • /buːn/

Boon 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-boon.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of boon

  • boons plural
  • booner comparative
  • boonest superlative

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

What does boon mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.

    Near-synonyms: gift; blessing, benefit; see also Thesaurus:gift

  2. 2

    That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

  3. 3

    obsoleteA prayer; petition.

  4. 4

    UKAn unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

  5. 5

    A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.

  6. 6

    The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

adjective

  1. 1

    Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

    (2) "Everybody's boon companion, / Everybody's chaperon"; (3) "Everybody's boon companion: / Give[s] 'em everything he's got"

  2. 2

    archaicKind; bountiful; benign.

  3. 3

    obsoleteGood; prosperous.

    boon voyage

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

Boon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchaubaine (A blessing or benefit), bénédiction (a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present)
GermanSegen, Wohltat, Gnade, Gunst, Vorteil (A blessing or benefit), Gabe (a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present)
Portuguesebênção (A blessing or benefit)
Spanishbendición, ventaja, beneficio, maná, gran ayuda, ayudar muchísimo (A blessing or benefit)

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 boon come from?

From Middle English boon (“prayer”), from Old Norse bón (“prayer, petition”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), influenced by boon (“good, favorable”, adjective). Doublet of ben; 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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