bored
/bɔɹd/adjective, verb
bored is spelled B-O-R-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,121st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “board vs bored” about 1,000 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, bored means “Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in bored?
| Letters | 5: B-O-R-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,121st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is bored?
Bored appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,121st 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 bored?
- UK /bɔːd/
- US /bɔɹd/
- /bo(ː)ɹd/
Bored 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: En-us-board.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-bored.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with bored
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: baud, bawd, board (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with bored?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bored from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: orbed.
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 bored
- more bored comparative
- boreder comparative
- most bored superlative
- boredest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bored mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
He was feeling bored so he decided to play Minecraft.
- 2
Perforated by a hole or holes.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of bore
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bored in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense suffering from boredom:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ennuyé |
| German | gelangweilt |
| Portuguese | aborrecido, chateado, entediado |
| Spanish | aburrido, embolado |
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 bored come from?
From bore + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).