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chaser

/ˈt͡ʃeɪsɚ/noun

chaser is spelled C-H-A-S-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chaser means “Something or someone who chases” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chaser is chasers.

How many letters and syllables are in chaser?

Letters6: C-H-A-S-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 24,463rd 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 and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 chaser?

Chaser appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd 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 chaser?

  • UK /ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/
  • US /ˈt͡ʃeɪsɚ/

Chaser has 2 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). Recordings: En-au-chaser.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with chaser?

8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chaser from its last stressed vowel (/eɪsəɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: search, casher, eschar.

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 chaser

  • chasers plural

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

What does chaser mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Something or someone who chases.

  2. 2

    A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.

    Oh, that final furlong! It can be both agony and ecstasy. Anyone who doubts that should have seen the television close-up of Jim Lewis as his great chaser Best Mate came up the final hill at Cheltenham in 2004 to clich a hat-trick of Gold C

  3. 3

    obsoleteA hunter (a horse bred and trained for use in hunting).

  4. 4

    slangA drink consumed after another of a different kind.

    beer chaser

  5. 5

    obsoleteSomeone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled

  6. 6

    One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.

  7. 7

    obsoleteslangA piece of music played after a performance while the audience leaves.

  8. 8

    A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.

  9. 9

    Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.

  10. 10

    A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.

    In Fig. i is shown one of the chasers in the position which it occupies in cutting a thread.

  11. 11

    A chase gun.

    bow chaser; stern chaser

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

Chaser in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpoursuivant, poursuivante (person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who…), pousse-alcool, rince-gueule, rince-cochon (mild drink consumed immediately after another…)
GermanJäger, Jägerin, Verfolger, Verfolgerin (person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who…), Begleitgetränk (mild drink consumed immediately after another…), Gravierer (someone who decorates metal by engraving or…)
Portugueseperseguidor, perseguidora (person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who…)
Spanishperseguidor, perseguidora (person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who…)

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 chaser come from?

Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.

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

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