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bander

noun

bander is spelled B-A-N-D-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bander means “Someone who bands birds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bander is banders.

How many letters and syllables are in bander?

Letters6: B-A-N-D-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 145,125th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is bander?

Bander appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).

How do you pronounce bander?

Bander 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bander.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of bander

  • banders plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does bander mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who bands birds.

  2. 2

    A device for putting metal bands around crates.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does bander come from?

From band + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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