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shunter

noun

shunter is spelled S-H-U-N-T-E-R: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shunter means “A railway locomotive used for shunting (switching)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shunter is shunters.

How many letters and syllables are in shunter?

Letters7: S-H-U-N-T-E-R
In writingabout once in every 42 million words; the 199,120th 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 shunter?

Shunter appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).

Forms of shunter

  • shunters plural

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

What does shunter mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    UKA railway locomotive used for shunting (switching).

  2. 2

    UKA person who carries out shunting operations.

  3. 3

    UKOne who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).

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

Shunter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchlocotracteur (a railway locomotive used for shunting)
GermanRangierlokomotive (a railway locomotive used for shunting), Verschiebedienstmitarbeiter, Rangierdienstmitarbeiter (a person who carries out shunting operations)
Portugueselocotrator, locomotiva manobreira (a railway locomotive used for shunting)

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 shunter come from?

From shunt + -er.

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

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