snooker
/ˈsnʊkɚ/noun, verb
snooker is spelled S-N-O-O-K-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snooker means “A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of snooker is snookers.
How many letters and syllables are in snooker?
| Letters | 7: S-N-O-O-K-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.1 times per million words; the 27,820th 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 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 snooker?
Snooker appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th 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 snooker?
- UK /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
- US /ˈsnʊkɚ/
Snooker 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: En-uk-snooker.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with snooker?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as snooker from its last stressed vowel (/ʊkəɹ/):
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 snooker
- snookers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- snookering participle, present
- snookered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does snooker mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
- 2
The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.
She put her opponent in a snooker.
verb
- 1
To play the game of snooker.
- 2
To fool or bamboozle.
- 3
To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
- 4
To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
- 5
To cause to become inebriated.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Snooker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cue sport:
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.