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keymaker

noun

keymaker is a noun meaning “One who makes keys” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-E-Y-M-A-K-E-R, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of keymaker is keymakers.

What does keymaker mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One who makes keys.

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

Forms of keymaker

  • keymakers plural
  • key-maker
  • key maker

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

How common is keymaker?

Keymaker appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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 keymaker come from?

From Middle English kay maker, equivalent to key + maker.

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