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duster

/ˈdʌstɚ/noun

duster is spelled D-U-S-T-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,943rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, duster means “An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of duster is dusters.

How many letters and syllables are in duster?

Letters6: D-U-S-T-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 37,943rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 duster?

Duster appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,943rd 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 duster?

  • US /ˈdʌstɚ/
  • UK /ˈdʌstə/

Duster 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-duster.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with duster?

8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as duster from its last stressed vowel (/ʌstəɹ/):

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 duster

  • dusters plural

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

What does duster mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.

  2. 2

    Someone who dusts.

  3. 3

    A loose-fitting long coat.

  4. 4

    A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.

  5. 5

    A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.

  6. 6

    A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.

  7. 7

    informalA vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.

  8. 8

    A type of loose dress worn at home as well as within the vicinity of one's home.

    Near-synonym: housedress

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

Duster in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchiffon, brosse (object used for dusting)
GermanStaubtuch, Staublappen, Staubwedel (object used for dusting), Staubwischer, Staubwischerin (person who dusts), Staubmantel (a light, loose-fitting long coat)
Portugueseapagador (object used for dusting)
Spanishplumero (object used for dusting)

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 duster come from?

From dust + -er.

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

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