sawyer
/ˈsɔɪ.ɚ/noun
sawyer is spelled S-A-W-Y-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sawyer means “One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sawyer is sawyers.
How many letters and syllables are in sawyer?
| Letters | 6: S-A-W-Y-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 sawyer?
Sawyer appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 sawyer?
- UK /ˈsɔːjə/
- UK /ˈsɔɪ.ə/
- US /ˈsɔɪ.ɚ/
Sawyer 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)-Vealhurl-sawyer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sawyer?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sawyer from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɪəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sweary.
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 sawyer
- sawyers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sawyer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
- 2
USA large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
- 3
A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
- 4
USThe bowfin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sawyer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who saws timber:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | scieur, scieuse |
| German | Säger, Sägerin |
| Portuguese | serrador |
| Spanish | aserrador, aserradora |
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 sawyer come from?
From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).