egger
/ˈɛɡə/
"egger" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“egger” is uncommon English (frequency #90,400 among 18,836 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,400
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One who gathers eggs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | egger |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛɡə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “egger” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
egger is uncommon English at frequency #90,400 among 18,836 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɛɡə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who gathers eggs.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for egger, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From egg + -er. The correct English form is egger, spelled E-G-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who gathers eggs.
Etymology
From egg + -er.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “egger”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-G-G-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.