photocopier
noun
photocopier is spelled P-H-O-T-O-C-O-P-I-E-R: 11 letters and 5 syllables. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, photocopier means “A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of photocopier is photocopiers.
How many letters and syllables are in photocopier?
| Letters | 11: P-H-O-T-O-C-O-P-I-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 80,453rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is photocopier?
Photocopier appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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 photocopier?
Photocopier has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-photocopier.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of photocopier
- photocopiers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does photocopier mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.
Near-synonyms: (all broadly synonymous) xerox machine, xerographer, xerox, photostat, laser copier
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Photocopier in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass pl:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | photocopieur, photocopieuse |
| German | Fotokopierer, Fotokopiergerät, Kopiergerät |
| Portuguese | xerox, copiadora |
| Spanish | fotocopiadora, copiadora |
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 photocopier come from?
From photocopy + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).