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meer

/ˈmɪə(ɹ)/noun

meer is spelled M-E-E-R: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “meer vs mere” about 30 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, meer means “A boundary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of meer is meers.

How many letters and syllables are in meer?

Letters4: M-E-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 45,363rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Same letters

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is meer?

Meer appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd 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 meer?

  • /ˈmɪə(ɹ)/

Meer 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-meer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with meer

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Also written: mayor, mere.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with meer?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as meer.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: mere, reem, erme.

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 meer

  • meers plural

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

What does meer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A boundary.

  2. 2

    obsoleteObsolete form of mere (“lake”).

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

Where does meer come from?

See mere.

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

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