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encourager

/ɪnˈkɝ.ɪd͡ʒəɹ/noun

encourager is spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-R: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, encourager means “One who provides encouragement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of encourager is encouragers.

How many letters and syllables are in encourager?

Letters10: E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-R
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th 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 encourager?

Encourager appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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 encourager?

  • /ɪnˈkɝ.ɪd͡ʒəɹ/

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

Forms of encourager

  • encouragers plural

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

What does encourager mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who provides encouragement.

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

Where does encourager come from?

From encourage + -er.

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

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