binder
/ˈbaɪndɚ/noun
binder is spelled B-I-N-D-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, binder means “Someone who binds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of binder is binders.
How many letters and syllables are in binder?
| Letters | 6: B-I-N-D-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is binder?
Binder appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 binder?
- UK /ˈbaɪndə/
- US /ˈbaɪndɚ/
- Canada /ˈbaɪndəɹ/
Binder 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: En-us-binder.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with binder?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as binder from its last stressed vowel (/aɪndəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: inbred, rebind.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of binder
- binders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does binder mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who binds.
- 2
Someone who binds books; a bookbinder.
- 3
A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages, etc.
- 4
Something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book.
- 5
A software mechanism that performs binding.
- 6
A program or routine that attaches malware to an existing harmless file on the target system.
- 7
A dossier.
- 8
A machine used in harvesting which cuts the stalks of a crop and then ties them into a bundle or sheaf.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Binder in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Binder , Ordner, Hefter, Mappe , Bindung, Buchrücken |
| French | reliure |
| Portuguese | fichário , binder |
| Spanish | carpeta, archivador, bibliorato, cartapacio, vademécum , aglutinante |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does binder come from?
From Middle English byndere; equivalent to bind + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).