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stalker

/ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/noun

stalker is spelled S-T-A-L-K-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stalker means “A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stalker is stalkers.

How many letters and syllables are in stalker?

Letters7: S-T-A-L-K-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How common is stalker?

Stalker appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th 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 stalker?

  • /ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/
  • /ˈstaːkɐ/

Stalker 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stalker.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with stalker

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

stalker vs stocker0 B

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of stalker

  • stalkers plural

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

What does stalker mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.

  2. 2

    A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.

  3. 3

    Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.

  4. 4

    Any bird that walks with a stalking motion.

  5. 5

    obsoleteA kind of fishing net.

  6. 6

    A horse that tends to stay just behind the leaders in a race.

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

Stalker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtraqueur, traqueuse (person who stalks game), rôdeur, rôdeuse (person who secretly follows someone, sometimes…)
GermanPirschjäger, Pirschjägerin (person who stalks game), Stalker, Stalkerin, Nachsteller, Nachstellerin (person who secretly follows someone, sometimes…)
Portugueseperseguidor, perseguidora (person who stalks game), stalker (person who secretly follows someone, sometimes…)
Spanishacechador, acechadora (person who stalks game), acosador, acosadora (person who secretly follows someone, sometimes…)

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 stalker come from?

From Middle English stalkere, equivalent to stalk + -er.

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

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