boyfriend: meaning and words from its letters
9 letters · 18 letter points · starts with B · ends with D
Meaning of boyfriend
noun
A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
Example: I was playing the drums and my boyfriend was playing the electric guitar.
A male friend.
- attributive, often
A style of women's clothing that draws heavily from corresponding men's garments.
Listed forms: boyfriends, boifriend.
Source: Wiktionary — boyfriend.
verb
- ambitransitive, informal, rare
To be a boyfriend to (someone).
- ambitransitive, informal, rare
To have (someone) as a boyfriend.
Listed forms: boyfriends, boyfriending, boyfriended, boifriend.
Source: Wiktionary — boyfriend.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for boyfriend.
noun
a man who is the lover of a man or woman
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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| American English | Found |
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Letter-value score of boyfriend
B(3) + O(1) + Y(4) + F(4) + R(1) + I(1) + E(1) + N(1) + D(2) = 18 points.
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Anagrams of boyfriend
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from boyfriend
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