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chanter

/ˈt͡ʃæntɚ/noun

chanter is spelled C-H-A-N-T-E-R: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chanter means “One who chants or sings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chanter is chanters.

How many letters and syllables are in chanter?

Letters7: C-H-A-N-T-E-R
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 90,432nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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 chanter?

Chanter appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd 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 chanter?

  • UK /ˈtʃɑːntə/
  • US /ˈt͡ʃæntɚ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chanter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with chanter?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: tranche.

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 chanter

  • chanters plural
  • chantor

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

What does chanter mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who chants or sings.

  2. 2

    A priest who sings in a chantry.

  3. 3

    The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.

    the piper was near being strangled / They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all.

  4. 4

    The hedge sparrow.

  5. 5

    archaicOne who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

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

Chanter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portuguesecantor (one who chants or sings), chantre (a priest who sings in a chantry), ponteiro (the pipe of a bagpipe)
Spanishcantor; cantante (one who chants or sings), cantor (a priest who sings in a chantry), caramillo (the pipe of a bagpipe)
Frenchchalumeau (the pipe of a bagpipe)
GermanMelodiepfeife (the pipe of a bagpipe)

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 chanter come from?

From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to chant + -er. Compare French chanteur. Doublet of cantor.

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

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