duck-squeezer

noun

"duck-squeezer" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“duck-squeezer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A device with a spout for compressing duck meat and producing a juice or gravy.

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Index EN-duck-squeezer · duck-squeezer · English

duck-squeezer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for duck-squeezer
PropertyValue
Headwordduck-squeezer
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “duck-squeezer” in English

duck-squeezerranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

duck-squeezer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for duck-squeezer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is duck-squeezer, spelled D-U-C-K---S-Q-U-E-E-Z-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A device with a spout for compressing duck meat and producing a juice or gravy.
  2. 2
    Synonym of ecofreak.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how duck-squeezer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Edward Spencer, Cakes & Ale Of course these two last-named dishes are only intended for bachelor-parties. Lovely woman must not be kept waiting for "duck-squeezers" or anything else.
  2. Then even the most passionate tree-huggers and duck-squeezers admitted that she was right. City life was becoming unsafe with the roving packs.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "duck-squeezer"?
"duck-squeezer" is spelled D-U-C-K---S-Q-U-E-E-Z-E-R.
What does "duck-squeezer" mean?
As a noun, "duck-squeezer" means: A device with a spout for compressing duck meat and producing a juice or gravy.
What language does "duck-squeezer" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list