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jeer

/d͡ʒɪɹ/noun, verb

jeer is spelled J-E-E-R: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jeer means “A mocking remark or reflection” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jeer is jeers.

How many letters and syllables are in jeer?

Letters4: J-E-E-R
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 80,453rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 jeer?

Jeer appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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 jeer?

  • UK /d͡ʒɪə/
  • US /d͡ʒɪɹ/
  • /ˈd͡ʒiə/

Jeer has one syllable (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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-jeer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with jeer?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as jeer from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɹ/):

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 jeer

  • jeers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • jeering participle, present
  • jeered participle, past

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

What does jeer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A mocking remark or reflection.

  2. 2

    A gear; a tackle.

  3. 3

    An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.

verb

  1. 1

    To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.

  2. 2

    archaicTo mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.

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

Jeer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmoquerie, raillerie (mocking remark), moquer, railler (to scoff or mock)
GermanSpott (mocking remark), spotten (to scoff or mock), Fall (gear; tackle)
Portuguesezombaria, escárnio (mocking remark), zombar, escarnecer, ridicularizar (to scoff or mock)
Spanishburlería (mocking remark), burlarse, abuchear (to scoff or mock)

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 jeer come from?

From earlier gyr, probably from Dutch gieren (“to roar with laughter, laugh loudly”) (related to German gieren (“to gape, snap”)); or from Dutch gekscheren (“to jeer”, literally “to shear the fool”), from gek (“a fool”) (see geck) + scheren (“to shear”) (see shear (verb)). The OED states no verifiable connection to English cheer.

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

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