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ricer

noun

ricer is a noun meaning “A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-C-E-R, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ricer is ricers.

What does ricer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USA person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice.

    There are also lots of ricers. By two weeks into ricing season, Native Harvest bought from 30 or 40 ricers.

  2. 2

    A utensil used to extrude soft foods (especially, cooked potato) through holes about the diameter of a grain of rice.

  3. 3

    USderogatoryslangAn automobile, especially one imported from an Oriental country, deemed inferior or cheap, that has been modified with after-market parts in order to appear more powerful or sporty.

  4. 4

    derogatoryslangA person who drives such an automobile.

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

How do you pronounce ricer?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-ricer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of ricer

  • ricers plural

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

How common is ricer?

Ricer appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).

Ricer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense kitchen utensil:

LanguageWords
GermanKartoffelpresse

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 ricer come from?

From rice + -er.

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