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snooze

/snuz/verb, noun

snooze is spelled S-N-O-O-Z-E: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, snooze means “To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in snooze?

Letters6: S-N-O-O-Z-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 29,649th 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 snooze?

Snooze appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th 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 snooze?

  • UK /snuːz/
  • British /snʉwz/
  • US /snuz/

Snooze 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-snooze.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with snooze?

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

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 snooze

  • snoozes present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • snoozing participle, present
  • snoozed participle, past
  • snooz

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

What does snooze mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

    The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.

  2. 2

    To pause; to postpone for a short while.

noun

  1. 1

    A brief period of sleep; a nap.

    The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.

  2. 2

    informalThe snooze button on an alarm clock.

  3. 3

    informalSomething boring.

    The whole movie was a snooze.

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

Snooze in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfaire une sieste, faire un somme, piquer un roupillon (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap), roupillon (A period of sleep; a nap)
Germandösen, nicken, ein Nickerchen machen (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap), Schläfchen, Nickerchen (A period of sleep; a nap)
Portuguesecochilar, dormitar (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap), cochilo, sesta (A period of sleep; a nap)
Spanishdormitar (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap), siesta (A period of sleep; a nap), lata, fastidio (Something boring)

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 snooze come from?

Unknown, attested since 18th century. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”). Compare also Ancient Greek νυστάζω (nustázō, “to doze, drowse”) and Russian сон (son, “sleep, dream”).

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

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