buffoon

Other forms of buffoon

plural

buffoons·

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 buffoon

What does buffoon mean?

buffoon means "a rude or vulgar fool". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buffoon?

buffoon has 2 syllables: buf-foon. The stress falls on "foon". In IPA it is /bəˈfun/.

What is another word for buffoon?

Close synonyms include clown, clown, goof, goofball, merry andrew. 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 buffoon a common word?

buffoon 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.

What rhymes with buffoon?

1 word rhymes with buffoon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.