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boozer

UK /ˈbuː.zə(ɹ)/noun

boozer is spelled B-O-O-Z-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boozer means “One who drinks alcohol habitually; a drunkard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of boozer is boozers.

How many letters and syllables are in boozer?

Letters6: B-O-O-Z-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 49,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 boozer?

Boozer appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th 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 boozer?

  • UK /ˈbuː.zə(ɹ)/

Boozer 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: EN-AU_ck1_boozer.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-boozer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with boozer?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as boozer from its last stressed vowel (/uzə/, British pronunciation):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: rebozo.

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 boozer

  • boozers plural

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

What does boozer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialOne who drinks alcohol habitually; a drunkard.

  2. 2

    AustraliaUKslangA public house, pub.

  3. 3

    UKobsoleteA World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers.

  4. 4

    A vehicle equipped with tanks for supplying water to remote locations.

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

Boozer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanSäufer, Säuferin, Trinker, Trinkerin, Schnapsbruder, Schnapsschwester (drunkard)
Portuguesebebum, pinguço (drunkard)
Spanishbareto (public house)

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 boozer come from?

From booze + -er (agent noun suffix) or (pub) + -er (relational noun suffix).

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

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