spier
noun
spier is spelled S-P-I-E-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spier means “One who spies; a spy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spier is spiers.
How many letters and syllables are in spier?
| Letters | 5: S-P-I-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 spier?
Spier appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 spier?
Spier 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).
What rhymes with spier?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as spier.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: spire, prise.
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 spier
- spiers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spier mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
rareOne who spies; a spy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does spier come from?
Inherited from Middle English spier, spyer, spiar, equivalent to spy + -er. Compare Dutch verspieder and bespieder (“spier”), German Späher (“spier”). Compare also Danish spejde (“spy”), Swedish speja (“spy”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).