rougher

noun, adjective

rougher is spelled R-O-U-G-H-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,320th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rougher means “A worker who shapes something to prepare it for a finishing operation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rougher is roughers.

How many letters and syllables are in rougher?

Letters	7: R-O-U-G-H-E-R
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 1 million words; the 35,320th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none 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 rougher?

Rougher appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,320th most frequent word form in the list.

rougher0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce rougher?

Rougher 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)-Neøn-rougher.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of rougher

roughers plural

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

What does rougher mean?

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

noun

1
A worker who shapes something to prepare it for a finishing operation.
2
A piece of woollen cloth prepared for fulling.

adjective

1
comparative form of rough: more rough (a form of rough)