speaker
/ˈspikɚ/noun
speaker is spelled S-P-E-A-K-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, speaker means “One who speaks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of speaker is speakers.
How many letters and syllables are in speaker?
| Letters | 7: S-P-E-A-K-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 31 times per million words; the 3,052nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 speaker?
Speaker appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd 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 speaker?
- US /ˈspikɚ/
- UK /ˈspiːkə/
Speaker 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-us-speaker.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with speaker?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as speaker from its last stressed vowel (/ikəɹ/):
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 speaker
- speakers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does speaker mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who speaks.
There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.
- 2
Loudspeaker.
She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
- 3
Speakerphone.
you're on speaker
- 4
The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 5
One who makes a speech to an audience.
Near-synonyms: orator, presenter, announcer
- 6
USA book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
- 7
The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
- 8
The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
Popular culture often incorrectly attributes quotes from the speakers of poems or songs to the authors thereof, as when "I took the one less traveled by" is attributed to Robert Frost rather than to the speaker in Frost's "The Road Not Take
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of speaker (“presiding officer of a legislative body”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate speaker?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of speaker: spkr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Speaker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | parleur, parleuse, locuteur, locutrice , baffle, haut-parleur |
| German | Sprecher, Sprecherin , Lautsprecher , Vorsitzender, Vorsitzende, Nationalratspräsident |
| Portuguese | falante , alto-falante, altifalante, caixa de som , presidente , orador |
| Spanish | hablante, parlante , altavoz, altoparlante, bocina |
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 speaker come from?
From Middle English speker, spekere, an alteration (with change of suffix) of Old English speca, spreca (“speaker”), from Proto-Germanic *sprekô (“speaker”), equivalent to speak + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).