burgee
noun
burgee is a noun meaning “A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-U-R-G-E-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of burgee is burgees.
What does burgee mean?
noun
- 1
A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club.
- 2
A flag in the form of a triangular swallowtail pennant regardless of use, as in the State Flag of Ohio, officially the 'Ohio Burgee'.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce burgee?
Burgee 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).
Forms of burgee
- burgees plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is burgee?
Burgee appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).
Burgee in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a broad tapering pennant:
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.