boner

Other forms of boner

plural

boners·

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 boner

What does boner mean?

boner means "an embarrassing mistake".

How many syllables are in boner?

boner has 2 syllables: bo-ner. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˈboʊnɚ/.

What is another word for boner?

Close synonyms include blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall. 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 boner a common word?

boner is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.