bruce
/bɹuːs/noun
bruce is spelled B-R-U-C-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bruce means “A man” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bruce is bruces.
How many letters and syllables are in bruce?
| Letters | 5: B-R-U-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 4,015th 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 bruce?
Bruce appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th 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 bruce?
- /bɹuːs/
- /ˈbɹʉs/
Bruce 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-AU_ck1_bruce.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with bruce?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as bruce.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cuber.
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 bruce
- bruces plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bruce mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangA man.
See Thesaurus:man
noun
- 1
Acronym of behaviors and talk, remembering, understanding, communicating, and evaluating.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does bruce come from?
From the man's name Bruce.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).