spacer
/ˈspeɪsɚ/noun
spacer is spelled S-P-A-C-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spacer means “An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spacer is spacers.
How many letters and syllables are in spacer?
| Letters | 6: S-P-A-C-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 35,748th 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 spacer?
Spacer appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th 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 spacer?
- US /ˈspeɪsɚ/
Spacer 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: En-au-spacer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with spacer?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as spacer from its last stressed vowel (/eɪsəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: scrape, parsec.
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 spacer
- spacers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spacer mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
- 2
A person who works or lives in space.
- 3
A bushing.
- 4
slangA forgetful person; one who spaces out.
- 5
A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
- 6
An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Spacer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an object:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | entretoise |
| Spanish | espaciador, separador |
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 spacer come from?
From space + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).