booth
/buθ/noun
booth is spelled B-O-O-T-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 6,047th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, booth means “A small stall for the display and sale of goods” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of booth is booths; Wiktionary also lists beeth (humorous).
How many letters and syllables are in booth?
| Letters | 5: B-O-O-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 6,047th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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 booth?
Booth appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 6,047th 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 booth?
- UK /buːð/
- UK /buːθ/
- US /buθ/
Booth 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-booth.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-booth.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with booth?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as booth from its last stressed vowel (/uθ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: bhoot.
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 booth
- booths plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does booth mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
- 2
datedA temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.
- 3
A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
- 4
An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
- 5
An enclosure for keeping animals.
- 6
slangA recording studio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Booth in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | stand, échoppe , cabine, guérite , box |
| German | Stand, Messestand, Bude , Zelle , Nische |
| Portuguese | banca , cabine |
| Spanish | puesto, stand, friquitín, caseta , cabina, garita |
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 booth come from?
Inherited from Middle English bothe, from Old East Norse *bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).