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highlander

/ˈhaɪləndəɹ/noun

highlander is spelled H-I-G-H-L-A-N-D-E-R: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, highlander means “A person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of highlander is highlanders.

How many letters and syllables are in highlander?

Letters10: H-I-G-H-L-A-N-D-E-R
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 32,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is highlander?

Highlander appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th 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 highlander?

  • /ˈhaɪləndəɹ/
  • /ˈhaɪləndə/

Highlander has 3 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-highlander.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of highlander

  • highlanders plural

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

What does highlander mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    ScotlandA person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands.

  2. 2

    Any person who lives in mountainous or hilly terrain.

  3. 3

    The Igorot people, referring to them originating from the Cordillera Mountain Range.

  4. 4

    A game format in which players are allowed no more than one of any card (except basic resource cards) in their decks.

noun

as Highlander
  1. 1

    A person from the Highlands.

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

Highlander in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchhighlander (inhabitant of the Scottish Highlands), montagnard, montagnarde (inhabitant of highlands)
GermanGebirgler, Gebirgsbewohner, Bergbewohner (inhabitant of highlands)

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 highlander come from?

From highland + -er.

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

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