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breeder

breed·er/ˈbɹiːdɚ/noun

breeder is spelled B-R-E-E-D-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables (breed·er). It appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, breeder means “A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of breeder is breeders.

How many letters and syllables are in breeder?

Letters7: B-R-E-E-D-E-R
Syllables2: breed·er
In writing2.2 times per million words; the 18,297th 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 breeder?

Breeder appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th 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 breeder?

  • /ˈbɹiːdɚ/

Breeder has 2 syllables, split breed·er in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-breeder.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of breeder

  • breeders plural

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

What does breeder mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).

  2. 2

    Ellipsis of breeder reactor, a type of nuclear reactor that creates more fissile material than it consumes, often used for the production of atomic weapons.

  3. 3

    A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.

  4. 4

    derogatoryslangA person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focused on the rearing of their own children.

  5. 5

    derogatoryA heterosexual person; one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding; straggot.

    Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.

  6. 6

    A 40-gallon fish tank, sometimes used to breed fish that is low in height and wide in length, typically measuring 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 16 inches high, making it and shallower than a typical 40-gallon aquarium.

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

Breeder in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchéleveur, éleveuse ((professional) plant or animal breeder), hétéro (heterosexual)
GermanZüchter, Züchterin, Pflanzenzüchter, Pflanzenzüchterin, Tierzüchter, Tierzüchterin ((professional) plant or animal breeder)
Portuguesecriador, criadora ((professional) plant or animal breeder), reprodutor (slang, derogatory: person focussed on the…)
Spanishcriador, criadora ((professional) plant or animal breeder), buga (heterosexual)

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 breeder come from?

From breed + -er. Cognate with West Frisian brieder (“one who breeds, breeder”), Dutch broeier (“brooder, vagrant”).

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

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