funder
/ˈfʌndɚ/noun
funder is a noun meaning “One who funds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-N-D-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of funder is funders.
What does funder mean?
noun
- 1
One who funds.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce funder?
- /ˈfʌndɚ/
Funder 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-funder.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of funder
- funders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is funder?
Funder appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th 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 funder come from?
From fund + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).