dingleberry
/ˈdɪŋɡəɫbɛɹi/noun
dingleberry is spelled D-I-N-G-L-E-B-E-R-R-Y: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dingleberry means “Vaccinium erythrocarpum, the southern mountain cranberry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dingleberry is dingleberries.
How many letters and syllables are in dingleberry?
| Letters | 11: D-I-N-G-L-E-B-E-R-R-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 19 million words; the 130,282nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is dingleberry?
Dingleberry appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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 dingleberry?
- /ˈdɪŋɡəɫbɛɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-dingleberry.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dingleberry
- dingleberries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dingleberry mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, the southern mountain cranberry.
- 2
derogatoryslangA stupid or foolish person.
- 3
derogatoryslangDried fecal matter adhering to anal hair.
- 4
datedAny residual irregularity following processing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dingleberry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense piece of feces:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Klabusterbeere |
| Portuguese | tolete, badalhoca, bagalheta |
| Spanish | gamborimbo, tarzanito |
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 dingleberry come from?
A (possibly dialectal) alteration of dangleberry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).