farmer
farm·er/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/noun
farmer is spelled F-A-R-M-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables (farm·er). It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, farmer means “A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of farmer is farmers.
How many letters and syllables are in farmer?
| Letters | 6: F-A-R-M-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: farm·er |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is farmer?
Farmer appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th 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 farmer?
- US /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/
- UK /ˈfɑː.mə/
Farmer has 2 syllables, split farm·er in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-farmer.ogg, En-uk-farmer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with farmer?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as farmer from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹməɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: framer.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of farmer
- farmers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does farmer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- 2
UKMore specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
- 3
One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
a farmer of the revenues
- 4
The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
- 5
slangA regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
- 6
datedA baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Farmer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | agriculteur, fermier, agricultrice, fermière, cultivateur, cultivatrice |
| German | Landwirt, Landwirtin, Bauer, Bäuerin, Farmer, Farmerin |
| Portuguese | agricultor, fazendeiro, farmeiro |
| Spanish | granjero, granjera, chacarero |
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 farmer come from?
From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).