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Tigger

Tig·ger/ˈtɪɡɚ/noun

Tigger is spelled T-I-G-G-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables (Tig·ger). It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Tigger means “An overly enthusiastic or energetic person, often characterized by bouncing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Tigger is Tiggers.

How many letters and syllables are in Tigger?

Letters6: T-I-G-G-E-R
Syllables2: Tig·ger
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 47,073rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 Tigger?

Tigger appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd 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 Tigger?

  • UK /ˈtɪɡə/
  • US /ˈtɪɡɚ/

Tigger has 2 syllables, split Tig·ger in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Tigger.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with Tigger?

11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as Tigger from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɡəɹ/):

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 Tigger

  • Tiggers plural

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

What does Tigger mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An overly enthusiastic or energetic person, often characterized by bouncing.

  2. 2

    UKinformalA member of The Independent Group for Change, a pro-European British political party that existed in 2019.

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

Where does Tigger come from?

An alteration of tiger, coined by the English author Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) as the name of the tiger friend of Winnie-the-Pooh, who is introduced in The House at Pooh Corner (1928) and described as “a Very Bouncy Animal”.

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

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