feeder
/ˈfidɚ/noun
feeder is spelled F-E-E-D-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, feeder means “One who feeds, or gives food to another” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of feeder is feeders.
How many letters and syllables are in feeder?
| Letters | 6: F-E-E-D-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.9 times per million words; the 15,798th 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 and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 feeder?
Feeder appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th 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 feeder?
- US /ˈfidɚ/
Feeder 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). Recordings: En-au-feeder.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with feeder?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as feeder from its last stressed vowel (/idəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: refeed.
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 feeder
- feeders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does feeder mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- 2
The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- 3
One who feeds, or takes in food.
- 4
One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
- 5
That which is used to feed.
bird feeder
- 6
A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- 7
A branch line of a railway.
- 8
A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does feeder come from?
From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).