# rapper

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɹæpɚ/ · frequency rank #7,600

## Definitions
1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
2. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
3. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
4. A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
5. A sword.
6. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
7. A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
8. A bold lie; a whopper.
9. A loud oath.

## Etymology
From rap + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **roper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-roper)
- **rarer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-rarer)
- **razer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-razer)
- **rather** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-rather)
- **ripped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-ripped)
- **reaper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-reaper)
- **ripper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-ripper)
- **raptor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-raptor)
- **raster** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-raster)
- **rapport** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-rapport)
- **reappear** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-reappear)
- **wrapper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapper-vs-wrapper)
- **rape** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rape-vs-rapper)
- **Rapp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapp-vs-rapper)
- **racer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/racer-vs-rapper)
- **ranger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ranger-vs-rapper)
- **raider** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/raider-vs-rapper)
- **raiser** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/raiser-vs-rapper)
- **Rainer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rainer-vs-rapper)
- **ramped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ramped-vs-rapper)

## Common misspellings (7)
`arpper`, `rapepr`, `raper`, `rapperr`, `rappre`, `rpaper`, `rrapper`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rapper