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blacker

/ˈblækɚ/noun, adjective

blacker is spelled B-L-A-C-K-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,663rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blacker means “One who blacks (in various senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blacker is blackers.

How many letters and syllables are in blacker?

Letters7: B-L-A-C-K-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 43,663rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 blacker?

Blacker appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,663rd 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 blacker?

  • US /ˈblækɚ/

Blacker 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)-Flame,_not_lame-blacker.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with blacker?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as blacker from its last stressed vowel (/ækəɹ/):

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 blacker

  • blackers plural

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

What does blacker mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who blacks (in various senses).

  2. 2

    Someone who creates black MIDI music.

adjective

  1. 1

    comparative form of black: more black (a form of black)

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

Where does blacker come from?

From black + -er.

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

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