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parer

noun

parer is a noun meaning “A tool used to pare things” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-E-R, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of parer is parers.

What does parer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A tool used to pare things.

  2. 2

    IrelandA pencil sharpener.

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

Forms of parer

  • parers plural

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

How common is parer?

Parer appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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 parer come from?

From pare + -er.

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