glider
/ˈɡlaɪdɚ/noun
glider is spelled G-L-I-D-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, glider means “One who glides” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of glider is gliders.
How many letters and syllables are in glider?
| Letters | 6: G-L-I-D-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st 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 glider?
Glider appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st 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 glider?
- UK /ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/
- US /ˈɡlaɪdɚ/
Glider 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)-Vealhurl-glider.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-glider.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with glider?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as glider from its last stressed vowel (/aɪdəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: girdle, gilder.
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 glider
- gliders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does glider mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who glides.
- 2
Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
- 3
A pilot of glider aircraft.
- 4
Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
- 5
Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
- 6
A kind of garden swing.
- 7
In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
- 8
Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Glider in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | planador |
| Spanish | planeador, planeadora |
| French | planeur |
| German | Segelflugzeug, Gleiter, Gleitflugzeug |
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 glider come from?
From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).