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biographer

noun

biographer is spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-E-R: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, biographer means “The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of biographer is biographers.

How many letters and syllables are in biographer?

Letters10: B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-E-R
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st 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 biographer?

Biographer appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st 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 biographer?

  • US

Biographer has 4 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)-Vininn126-biographer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of biographer

  • biographers plural

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

What does biographer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.

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

Biographer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the writer of a biography:

LanguageWords
Frenchbiographe
GermanBiograf
Portuguesebiógrafo
Spanishbiógrafo, biógrafa

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.

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