breeze
/bɹiːz/noun, verb
breeze is spelled B-R-E-E-Z-E: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, breeze means “A light, gentle wind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of breeze is breezes.
How many letters and syllables are in breeze?
| Letters | 6: B-R-E-E-Z-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 breeze?
Breeze appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 breeze?
- /bɹiːz/
Breeze 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-breeze.ogg, En-au-breeze.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with breeze?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as breeze.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: beezer.
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 breeze
- breezes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- brize
- briess
- breezing participle, present
- breezed participle, past
- breese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does breeze mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A light, gentle wind.
The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.
- 2
Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.
- 3
Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
- 4
An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
The discovery produced a breeze.
- 5
A brief workout for a racehorse.
- 6
A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
- 7
Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
verb
- 1
To move casually, in a carefree manner.
- 2
To blow gently.
- 3
To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
- 4
To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
- 5
To buzz.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Breeze in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | brise , gâteau |
| German | Brise, Windchen , Kinderspiel , flitzen , wehen |
| Portuguese | brisa , tranquilo |
| Spanish | brisa, vahaje, alisio , pan comido, breva, chanfa |
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 breeze come from?
From the earlier (nautical) term brise, brize (“breeze”), from Middle English brees (“wind”). Ultimate origin obscure. Variously supposed to derive from a Germanic source like Saterland Frisian Briese (“breeze”), West Frisian brys (“a cool wind”), Dutch bries (“breeze”), early Dutch brysen (“to blow cool and fresh”), or from Spanish brisa (“northeast wind”). The earliest attestations are in Middle English brees (1460), Catalan brisa, and Italian brezza (all in 15th century), with Spanish (1504) and Portuguese briza (16th century) following closely after.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).