Skip to main content

letterer

noun

letterer is spelled L-E-T-T-E-R-E-R: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, letterer means “A person who is professionally employed to add writing to something (as a sign, shop window, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of letterer is letterers.

How many letters and syllables are in letterer?

Letters8: L-E-T-T-E-R-E-R
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is letterer?

Letterer appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).

Forms of letterer

  • letterers plural

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

What does letterer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person who is professionally employed to add writing to something (as a sign, shop window, etc.)

  2. 2

    A particular profession in the production of comics, an artist specializing in neatly writing written material such as dialogue.

  3. 3

    A device for printing letters of text.

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

Where does letterer come from?

From letter + -er.

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

What to look up after letterer