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banhammer

noun, verb

banhammer is spelled B-A-N-H-A-M-M-E-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, banhammer means “The power of a sysop to block a user from participating in an online community” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of banhammer is banhammers.

How many letters and syllables are in banhammer?

Letters9: B-A-N-H-A-M-M-E-R
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is banhammer?

Banhammer appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 banhammer?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-banhammer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of banhammer

  • banhammers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • ban hammer
  • banhammering participle, present
  • banhammered participle, past

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

What does banhammer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The power of a sysop to block a user from participating in an online community.

verb

  1. 1

    To block a user from participating in an online community.

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

Where does banhammer come from?

From ban + hammer, perhaps evoking a gavel.

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

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