flagger
/ˈflæɡ.əɹ/noun
flagger is a noun meaning “One who uses a flag or signal, for example to direct traffic or to start a race” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-G-G-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flagger is flaggers.
What does flagger mean?
noun
- 1
One who uses a flag or signal, for example to direct traffic or to start a race.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flagger?
- US /ˈflæɡ.əɹ/
Flagger has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flagger.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flagger
- flaggers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flagger?
Flagger appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).
Flagger in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who uses flag:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | banderero |
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 flagger come from?
From flag + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).