faster
fast·er/ˈfæstɚ/noun, adjective, adverb
faster is spelled F-A-S-T-E-R, 2 syllables: fast·er. The wrong spelling people search most is fater: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Faster is a noun meaning “One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating”. The plural of faster is fasters.
How many letters and syllables are in faster?
| Letters | 6: F-A-S-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: fast·er |
| In writing | 44 times per million words; the 2,290th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, fater, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell faster?
Faster is spelled F-A-S-T-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for faster in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is faster?
Faster appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th 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 faster?
- US /ˈfæstɚ/
- UK /ˈfɑːstə/
Faster has 2 syllables, split fast·er in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-faster.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with faster?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as faster from its last stressed vowel (/æstəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: afters, strafe.
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 faster
- fasters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does faster mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating.
adjective
- 1
comparative form of fast: more fast
adverb
- 1
comparative form of fast: more fast
phrase
- 1
Acronym of face, arms, stability, talking, eyes, react, a mnemonic for diagnosing a cerebrovascular accident (“CVA”) or stroke; coined in recognition of the word faster, as a need for speedy diagnosis and treatment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Faster in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | jeûneur, jeûneuse , VITE |
| Portuguese | jejuador, jejuadora |
| Spanish | ayunador, ayunadora |
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 faster come from?
From fast (“refrain from eating”) + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).