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geezer

/ˈɡizɚ/noun

geezer is spelled G-E-E-Z-E-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, geezer means “A male person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of geezer is geezers.

How many letters and syllables are in geezer?

Letters6: G-E-E-Z-E-R
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 34,504th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
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 geezer?

Geezer appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th 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 geezer?

  • US /ˈɡizɚ/
  • UK /ˈɡiːzə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-geezer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with geezer

Sounds like: Giza, geyser (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: geyser.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with geezer?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as geezer from its last stressed vowel (/izəɹ/):

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 geezer

  • geezers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does geezer mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    CommonwealthIrelandUKdatedinformalA male person.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthIrelandUKslangSomeone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.

  3. 3

    CommonwealthIrelandUKslangTerm of address for a male.

    Hi, geezer, you alright?

  4. 4

    CanadaUSderogatoryinformalAn old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.

  5. 5

    CommonwealthIrelandUKarchaicslangWife; old woman.

  6. 6

    Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Geezer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmec, bougre, gars (male person), gros (informal address to a male), vieillard (informal: old person, especially male)
GermanTyp, Kerl (male person), Knacker, Greis, alter Knacker, alte Schachtel (informal: old person, especially male)
Portuguesetipo, gajo, cara, caboclo (male person), velho (informal: old person, especially male)
Spanishmenda (male person), viejales, vejestorio, carcamal (despective), vejete (informal: old person, especially male)

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 geezer come from?

From guiser. Compare also German Low German Kieser (“an obstinate person; brute; savage”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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