farer
/ˈfɛəɹə(ɹ)/obsolete
farer is a noun meaning “One who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-E-R, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farer is farers.
What does farer mean?
noun
- 1
archaicOne who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce farer?
- UK /ˈfɛəɹə(ɹ)/
- /ˈfɛɹɚ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farer?
Farer appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 farer come from?
From Middle English farere (attested in Middle English weyfarere, weifarere (“wayfarer”)), equivalent to fare (“to journey, travel”) + -er. Compare Old English fara (“traveller, farer”). Doublet of Führer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).