healer
/ˈhilɚ/noun
healer is spelled H-E-A-L-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, healer means “One who heals, especially through faith” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of healer is healers.
How many letters and syllables are in healer?
| Letters | 6: H-E-A-L-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 healer?
Healer appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 healer?
- UK /ˈhiːlə(ɹ)/
- US /ˈhilɚ/
Healer 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)-Vininn126-healer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with healer?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as healer from its last stressed vowel (/iləɹ/):
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 healer
- healers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does healer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who heals, especially through faith.
faith healer
- 2
Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Healer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who heals:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | guérisseur, guérisseuse |
| German | Heiler, Heilerin |
| Portuguese | curandeiro |
| Spanish | curandero, santero, sanador |
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 healer come from?
From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal + -er. Cognate with Dutch heler (“healer”), German Heiler (“healer”), Icelandic heilari (“healer”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).