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ejector

/ɪˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/noun

ejector is spelled E-J-E-C-T-O-R: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 55,433rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ejector means “One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ejector is ejectors.

How many letters and syllables are in ejector?

Letters7: E-J-E-C-T-O-R
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 55,433rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is ejector?

Ejector appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 55,433rd 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 ejector?

  • /ɪˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/
  • /iːˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ejector.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of ejector

  • ejectors plural

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

What does ejector mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.

  2. 2

    A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.

  3. 3

    ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.

  4. 4

    That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.

  5. 5

    A lever for removing circuit boards from an electronic chassis.

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

Ejector in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense ejector:

LanguageWords
Frenchéjecteur
Spanisheyector

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 ejector come from?

From eject + -or.

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

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