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framer

/ˈfɹeɪmɚ/noun

framer is a noun meaning “A person who makes frames for paintings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-M-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of framer is framers.

What does framer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A person who makes frames for paintings.

  2. 2

    A person who assembles the frame of a ship.

  3. 3

    USA person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.

  4. 4

    A person who writes a new law.

  5. 5

    USAny of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

    the Framers of the Constitution

  6. 6

    A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.

  7. 7

    A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce framer?

  • US /ˈfɹeɪmɚ/

Framer 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).

Forms of framer

  • framers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is framer?

Framer appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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).

Framer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense legislator:

LanguageWords
GermanGesetzgeber, Gesetzgeberin, Gesetzschreiber

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 framer come from?

From frame + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).