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miller

mill·er/ˈmɪlɚ/noun

miller is a noun meaning “A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flourmill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-I-L-L-E-R and has 2 syllables (mill·er), and it appears 32 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of miller is millers.

What does miller mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flourmill.

  2. 2

    datedA milling machine.

  3. 3

    Any of several moths that have powdery wings, especially Acronicta leporina and moths of the genus Agrotis.

  4. 4

    A floury-smelling mushroom, Clitopilus prunulus.

  5. 5

    UKarchaicslangA rat.

  6. 6

    informalA moth.

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

How do you pronounce miller?

  • UK /ˈmɪləː/
  • UK [ˈmɪləː]
  • US /ˈmɪlɚ/

Miller has 2 syllables, split mill·er in writing.

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

Forms of miller

  • millers plural

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

How common is miller?

Miller appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd 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).

Miller in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense person:

LanguageWords
Frenchmeunier, meunière
GermanMüller, Müllerin
Portuguesemoleiro, moleira
Spanishmolinero, molinera

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 miller come from?

From Middle English myllere, mellere, from earlier mylnere, possibly from an Old English *mylnere, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnārī (“miller”), equivalent to mill + -er; cf. also Late Latin molīnārius (“miller”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Muller, Dutch mulder, molenaar, German Low German Möller, German Müller, Müllner, Danish møller, Norwegian Bokmål møller, Norwegian Nynorsk mylnar, møllar, Swedish mjölnare, Icelandic mylnari. Compare also Middle English milward, mulward (“miller”), from Old English mylenweard (“miller”, literally “mill-keeper”) (> English Millward (surname)).

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