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milker

noun

milker is spelled M-I-L-K-E-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, milker means “An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of milker is milkers.

How many letters and syllables are in milker?

Letters6: M-I-L-K-E-R
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th 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 milker?

Milker appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 milker?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-milker.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of milker

  • milkers plural

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

What does milker mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces.

  2. 2

    A person who milks.

    The milker woke up at dawn each day to tend to the cows.

  3. 3

    A milking machine.

  4. 4

    A conservative poker player who only raises the stakes on a good hand.

  5. 5

    slangA woman’s breast.

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

Milker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishlechera, vaca lechera (dairy cow), ordeñador, ordeñadora (person who milks)
GermanMelker, Melkerin (person who milks)

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 milker come from?

From Middle English milkere, equivalent to milk + -er.

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

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