milker
"milker" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“milker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces.
Corpus desk
Index EN-milker · milker · English
milker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “milker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
milker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
milker doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English milkere, equivalent to milk + -er. The correct English form is milker, spelled M-I-L-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces.
- 2A person who milks.
- 3A milking machine.
- 4A conservative poker player who only raises the stakes on a good hand.
- 5A woman’s breast.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how milker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
‘No, you can’t keep a milker here. A beast has to be half wild to stand any chance.’
The milker woke up at dawn each day to tend to the cows.
Etymology
From Middle English milkere, equivalent to milk + -er.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.