seer
/sɪə(ɹ)/noun
seer is spelled S-E-E-R: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “sear vs seer” about 140 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, seer means “One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of seer is seers.
How many letters and syllables are in seer?
| Letters | 4: S-E-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,556th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is seer?
Seer appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th 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 seer?
- /sɪə(ɹ)/
- /ˈsiːə(ɹ)/
- /ˈsiːɐ/
Seer has one syllable (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)-I_learned_some_phrases-seer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with seer
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: sere (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with seer?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as seer.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sere.
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 seer
- seers plural
- see-er
- seeër rare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does seer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
- 2
One who sees something; an eyewitness.
- 3
Alternative form of sihr.
noun
- 1
Initialism of seasonal energy efficiency ratio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Seer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | témoin , voyant, voyante, devin |
| Portuguese | testemunha , vidente |
| Spanish | testigo , vidente |
| German | Seher, Seherin, Wahrsager, Wahrsagerin, Weissager, Weissagerin |
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 seer come from?
From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).