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purger

noun

purger is spelled P-U-R-G-E-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, purger means “One who, or that which, purges or cleanses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of purger is purgers.

How many letters and syllables are in purger?

Letters6: P-U-R-G-E-R
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is purger?

Purger appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).

Forms of purger

  • purgers plural

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

What does purger mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    One who, or that which, purges or cleanses.

  2. 2

    A cathartic medicine.

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

Where does purger come from?

From purge + -er.

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

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