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daydreamer

day·dream·er/ˈdeɪdɹiːmɚ/noun

daydreamer is a noun meaning “One who daydreams” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-A-Y-D-R-E-A-M-E-R and has 3 syllables (day·dream·er), and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of daydreamer is daydreamers.

What does daydreamer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One who daydreams.

  2. 2

    A person who wastes time daydreaming of accomplishments instead of accomplishing things.

noun

as Daydreamer
  1. 1

    A fan of British singer-songwriter Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 1988), simply known as Adele.

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

How do you pronounce daydreamer?

  • UK /ˈdeɪdɹiːmə/
  • US /ˈdeɪdɹiːmɚ/
  • US [ˈdeɪdɹiːmɚ]

Daydreamer has 3 syllables, split day·dream·er in writing.

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

Forms of daydreamer

  • daydreamers plural

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

How common is daydreamer?

Daydreamer appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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).

Daydreamer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense one who daydreams:

LanguageWords
Frenchrêveur, rêveuse, rêvasseur, rêvasseuse, jongleur, jongleuse
GermanTagträumer, Tagträumerin, Träumer, Träumerin, Schwärmer, Schwärmerin
Portuguesesonhador, sonhadora, nefelibata, nefelíbata
Spanishnefelibata, pajarón, pajarona

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 daydreamer come from?

From daydream + -er.

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