# changer

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒə/ · frequency rank #15,772

## Definitions
1. Someone or something who changes things.
2. Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
3. A moneychanger; a person employed in changing or discounting money.

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English chaungere, chaungeour (“moneychanger”); equivalent to change + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **charge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-charge)
- **chaser** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-chaser)
- **Changi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-changi)
- **changes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-changes)
- **channel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-channel)
- **charges** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-charges)
- **chapter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-chapter)
- **charged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-charged)
- **charter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-charter)
- **charger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-charger)
- **chatter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-chatter)
- **Chaucer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-chaucer)
- **charmer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/changer-vs-charmer)
- **chang** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chang-vs-changer)
- **change** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/change-vs-changer)
- **chance** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chance-vs-changer)
- **cancer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cancer-vs-changer)
- **Chanel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chanel-vs-changer)
- **Chaney** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chaney-vs-changer)
- **canter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/canter-vs-changer)

## Common misspellings (11)
`cahnger`, `cchanger`, `chagner`, `chanegr`, `changerr`, `changger`, `changre`, `channger`, `chhanger`, `chnager`, `hcanger`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/changer