goober

Other forms of goober

plural

goobers·

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 goober

What does goober mean?

goober means "pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms".

How many syllables are in goober?

goober has 2 syllables and divides as goo-ber under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for goober?

Close synonyms include peanut, earthnut, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut. 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 goober a common word?

goober 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.