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shrinker

noun

shrinker is spelled S-H-R-I-N-K-E-R: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shrinker means “Something that makes something else shrink” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shrinker is shrinkers.

How many letters and syllables are in shrinker?

Letters8: S-H-R-I-N-K-E-R
In writingabout once in every 44 million words; the 204,233rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is shrinker?

Shrinker appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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 shrinker?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-shrinker.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of shrinker

  • shrinkers plural

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

What does shrinker mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Something that makes something else shrink.

  2. 2

    slangA psychiatrist; a head-shrinker.

  3. 3

    A sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation.

  4. 4

    One who shrinks or recoils.

  5. 5

    Something that itself shrinks.

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

Where does shrinker come from?

From shrink + -er.

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

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