fainter
noun, adjective
fainter is a noun meaning “One who faints” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-I-N-T-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fainter is fainters.
What does fainter mean?
noun
- 1
One who faints.
adjective
- 1
comparative form of faint: more faint
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fainter?
Fainter 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).
Forms of fainter
- fainters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fainter?
Fainter appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th 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).
Where does fainter come from?
From faint (verb) + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).