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carjacker

noun

carjacker is spelled C-A-R-J-A-C-K-E-R: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, carjacker means “One who engages in carjacking; one who steals an occupied automobile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of carjacker is carjackers.

How many letters and syllables are in carjacker?

Letters9: C-A-R-J-A-C-K-E-R
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd 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 carjacker?

Carjacker appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 carjacker?

    Carjacker has 3 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).

    Forms of carjacker

    • carjackers plural

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

    What does carjacker mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      One who engages in carjacking; one who steals an occupied automobile.

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

    Where does carjacker come from?

    From carjack + -er.

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

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