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digger

Dig·ger/ˈdɪɡɚ/noun

digger is spelled D-I-G-G-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables (Dig·ger). It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, digger means “A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of digger is diggers.

How many letters and syllables are in digger?

Letters6: D-I-G-G-E-R
Syllables2: Dig·ger
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 23,253rd 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 digger?

Digger appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd 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 digger?

  • US /ˈdɪɡɚ/
  • UK /ˈdɪɡə/

Digger has 2 syllables, split Dig·ger in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_digger.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with digger?

11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as digger from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɡəɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: rigged.

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 digger

  • diggers plural

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

What does digger mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.

  2. 2

    A tool for digging.

  3. 3

    slangA spade (playing card).

  4. 4

    One who digs.

  5. 5

    AustraliaobsoleteA gold miner, one who digs for gold.

  6. 6

    AustraliainformalAn Australian soldier.

  7. 7

    Australiadateda friendly term of address, especially to a man.

  8. 8

    USdatedoffensiveslangvulgarA member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians.

noun

as Digger
  1. 1

    A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.

  2. 2

    One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.

  3. 3

    derogatoryobsoleteOne of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.

  4. 4

    A user of the American news aggregator Digg.

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

Digger in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanGrabwerkzeug (tool for digging), Gräber, Gräberin (one who digs)
Frenchexcavateur (one who digs)

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 digger come from?

From Middle English dyggar, equivalent to dig + -er. In the sense of "Australian soldier", attributed to the considerable time that soldiers spent digging trenches during World War I.

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

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