diver
/ˈdaɪ̯və(ɹ)/noun
diver is spelled D-I-V-E-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, diver means “Someone who dives, especially as a sport” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of diver is divers.
How many letters and syllables are in diver?
| Letters | 5: D-I-V-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.6 times per million words; the 16,896th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 diver?
Diver appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th 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 diver?
- /ˈdaɪ̯və(ɹ)/
Diver 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-diver.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-diver.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with diver?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as diver.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: drive.
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 diver
- divers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does diver mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- 2
Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- 3
IrelandUKloon (Gavia spp.)
- 4
A New Zealand sand diver (Tewara cranwellae)
- 5
A long-finned sand diver (Limnichthys polyactis)
- 6
datedA passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
- 7
obsoleteslangA pickpocket.
- 8
A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Diver in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | plongeur, plongeuse |
| German | Taucher, Taucherin |
| Portuguese | mergulhador, mergulhadora |
| Spanish | buzo, submarinista, buceador, búzano, escafandrista , clavadista |
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 diver come from?
From dive + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).