spawner
/ˈspɔnɚ/noun
spawner is a noun meaning “A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically ready to spawn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-P-A-W-N-E-R, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of spawner is spawners.
What does spawner mean?
noun
- 1
A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically ready to spawn
- 2
A program which spawns objects or processes as needed
- 3
An object in a simulated game world that spawns further objects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce spawner?
- US /ˈspɔnɚ/
- UK /ˈspɔːnə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-spawner.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of spawner
- spawners plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is spawner?
Spawner appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).
Spawner in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense female fish:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Rogener, Rogner, Rogenfisch |
| Portuguese | peixa |
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 spawner come from?
From spawn + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).