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catcher

catch·er/ˈkæt͡ʃəɹ/noun

catcher is spelled C-A-T-C-H-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables (catch·er). It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, catcher means “Someone or something that catches” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of catcher is catchers.

How many letters and syllables are in catcher?

Letters7: C-A-T-C-H-E-R
Syllables2: catch·er
In writing3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is catcher?

Catcher appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 catcher?

  • UK /ˈkæt͡ʃə/
  • US /ˈkæt͡ʃəɹ/
  • US /ˈkɛt͡ʃ-/

Catcher has 2 syllables, split catch·er in writing.

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

What rhymes with catcher?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as catcher from its last stressed vowel (/ætʃəɹ/):

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 catcher

  • catchers plural

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

What does catcher mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Someone or something that catches.

  2. 2

    The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

  3. 3

    UScolloquialThe bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.

  4. 4

    archaicA wrestler.

  5. 5

    The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.

  6. 6

    Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”)

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

Catcher in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchattrapeur (that which catches), receveur, receveuse (baseball player who receives pitches)
GermanFänger (that which catches), Catcher, Catcherin, Fängerin (baseball player who receives pitches)
Portuguesecoletor (that which catches), receptor (baseball player who receives pitches)
Spanishcolector (that which catches), receptor (baseball player who receives pitches)

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 catcher come from?

From catch + -er.

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

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