formatter
noun
formatter is a noun meaning “One who or that which formats” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-M-A-T-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of formatter is formatters.
What does formatter mean?
noun
- 1
One who or that which formats.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of formatter
- formatters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is formatter?
Formatter appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 formatter come from?
From format + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).