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rammer

/ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/noun

rammer is spelled R-A-M-M-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rammer means “A device used to ram; a ramrod” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rammer is rammers.

How many letters and syllables are in rammer?

Letters6: R-A-M-M-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 92,628th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 rammer?

Rammer appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th 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 rammer?

  • /ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/

Rammer 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)-Vealhurl-rammer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of rammer

  • rammers plural

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

What does rammer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A device used to ram; a ramrod.

    Now use your rammer to pack it tightly into the barrel.

  2. 2

    One who, or that, rams.

    the Zeppelin Rammer

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

Where does rammer come from?

From ram + -er.

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

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