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diviner

/dɪˈvaɪnɚ/noun, adjective

diviner is spelled D-I-V-I-N-E-R: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, diviner means “One who foretells the future” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of diviner is diviners.

How many letters and syllables are in diviner?

Letters7: D-I-V-I-N-E-R
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 69,884th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 diviner?

Diviner appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th 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 diviner?

  • UK /dɪˈvaɪnə(ɹ)/
  • US /dɪˈvaɪnɚ/
  • Australia /dɪˈvɑɪnə(ɹ)/

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

What rhymes with diviner?

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

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 diviner

  • diviners plural
  • devynour
  • divinour
  • divinor

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

What does diviner mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who foretells the future.

  2. 2

    One who divines or conjectures.

  3. 3

    One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.

adjective

  1. 1

    comparative form of divine: more divine (a form of divine)

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

Diviner in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanHellseher, Hellseherin, Wahrsager, Wahrsagerin (one who foretells the future), Rutengänger, Rutengängerin (one who searches for underground water)
Spanishdivinador (disused) (one who foretells the future)

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 diviner come from?

From Middle English divinour, from Latin dīvīnātor (“diviner; fortune-teller; soothsayer”), from dīvīnāre (“to foresee, to foretell”). Doublet of divinator. Equivalent to divine + -er.

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

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