bunny
bun·ny/ˈbʌni/noun, adjective
bunny is spelled B-U-N-N-Y, 2 syllables: bun·ny. The wrong spelling people search most is bunni: about 490 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 39 of all searches for the word. Bunny is a noun meaning “A rabbit, especially a juvenile one”. The plural of bunny is bunnies.
How many letters and syllables are in bunny?
| Letters | 5: B-U-N-N-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: bun·ny |
| In writing | 7.6 times per million words; the 8,542nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, bunni, about 490 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 do you spell bunny?
Bunny is spelled B-U-N-N-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 27 of the searches for bunny in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is bunny?
Bunny appears 7.6 times per million words in written English, the 8,542nd 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 bunny?
- US /ˈbʌni/
- /ˈbʊni/
- /ˈbʌne/
Bunny has 2 syllables, split bun·ny in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bunny.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with bunny?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bunny from its last stressed vowel (/ʌni/):
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 bunny
- bunnies plural
- bunnie rare
- bunnier comparative
- bunniest superlative
- bunney
- bonie
- more bunny comparative
- most bunny superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bunny mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalA rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
- 2
A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
- 3
In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
- 4
datedslangA menstrual pad.
- 5
Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
- 6
UKA swelling from a blow; a bump.
- 7
A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
- 8
UKA culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
- 9
UKA chine or gully formed by water running over the edge of a cliff; a wooded glen or small ravine opening through the cliff line to the sea.
- 10
UKAny small drain or culvert.
- 11
UKA brick arch or wooden bridge, covered with earth across a drawn or carriage in a water-meadow, just wide enough to allow a hay-wagon to pass over.
- 12
UKA small pool of water.
- 13
Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.
adjective
- 1
Easy or unchallenging.
Let’s start on the bunny slope.
- 2
rareResembling a bun (small bread roll).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate bunny?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of bunny: bun.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bunny in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lapereau |
| German | Kaninchen, Hase, Häschen, Häslein, Hoppelhäslein, Karnickel |
| Portuguese | coelhinho, caçapo , coelhinha |
| Spanish | conejo, conejito, gazapo , conejita |
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 bunny come from?
From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).