planer
/ˈpɫeɪ̯n.ɚ/noun, adjective
planer is spelled P-L-A-N-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, planer means “A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of planer is planers.
How many letters and syllables are in planer?
| Letters | 6: P-L-A-N-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 62,179th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is planer?
Planer appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th 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 planer?
- /ˈpleɪ̯n.əɹ/
- US /ˈpɫeɪ̯n.ɚ/
- UK /ˈpleɪ̯n.ə/
Planer has 2 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)-Persent101-planer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with planer
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with planer?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as planer from its last stressed vowel (/eɪnəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: replan.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of planer
- planers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does planer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.
- 2
A person employed to use this kind of woodworking tool.
- 3
A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded b
- 4
archaicA wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
adjective
- 1
comparative form of plane: more plane
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Planer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense woodworking tool:
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 planer come from?
From Middle English planer, planere, equivalent to plane + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).