salvager
noun
salvager is a noun meaning “A person who engages in salvage work” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-V-A-G-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of salvager is salvagers.
What does salvager mean?
noun
- 1
A person who engages in salvage work.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce salvager?
Salvager has 3 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).
Forms of salvager
- salvagers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is salvager?
Salvager appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).
Salvager in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense A person who engages in salvage work:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sauveteur, sauveteuse |
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 salvager come from?
From salvage + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).