hodder
obsolete
hodder is a noun meaning “A coal miner who hauls hods from the workface” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-D-D-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hodder is hodders.
What does hodder mean?
noun
- 1
obsoleteA coal miner who hauls hods from the workface
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hodder?
Hodder has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hodder?
Hodder appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hodder come from?
From hod + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).