ringer
/ˈɹɪŋə(ɹ)/noun
ringer is spelled R-I-N-G-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 26,776th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ringer means “Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ringer is ringers.
How many letters and syllables are in ringer?
| Letters | 6: R-I-N-G-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.1 times per million words; the 26,776th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is ringer?
Ringer appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 26,776th 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 ringer?
- /ˈɹɪŋə(ɹ)/
Ringer 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: En-au-ringer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ringer?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ringer.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: erring.
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 ringer
- ringers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ringer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- 2
A crowbar.
- 3
A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
- 4
AustraliaA stockman, a cowboy.
- 5
In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- 6
A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
- 7
UKA top performer.
- 8
AustraliaThe champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- 9
slangAny person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
- 10
A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
Near-synonym: hustler
- 11
A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- 12
UKslangA fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
- 13
A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
That man over there is an exact ringer for my father!
- 14
UKinformalAn officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
- 15
A ringer T-shirt.
noun
- 1
slangA fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does ringer come from?
From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).