spoonerism

1. 1.

   transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words

   Broaderslip of the tongue

Other forms of spoonerism

plural

spoonerisms·

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 spoonerism

What does spoonerism mean?

spoonerism means "transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words".

How many syllables are in spoonerism?

spoonerism has 3 syllables and divides as spoo-ne-rism 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.