byre
/ˈbaɪɚ/noun
byre is spelled B-Y-R-E: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, byre means “A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of byre is byres.
How many letters and syllables are in byre?
| Letters | 4: B-Y-R-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 15 million words; the 118,441st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is byre?
Byre appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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 byre?
- UK /ˈbaɪə/
- US /ˈbaɪɚ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-byre.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with byre?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as byre from its last stressed vowel (/aɪəɹ/):
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 byre
- byres plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does byre mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
UKA barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Byre in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle:
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 byre come from?
From Middle English bire, bier, byr, from Old English bȳre.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).