blooper

Other forms of blooper

plural

bloopers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blooper

What does blooper mean?

blooper means "an embarrassing mistake".

How many syllables are in blooper?

blooper has 2 syllables: bloo-per. The stress falls on "bloo". In IPA it is /ˈblupɚ/.

What is another word for blooper?

Close synonyms include blunder, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blooper a common word?

blooper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.