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stemmer

noun

stemmer is spelled S-T-E-M-M-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stemmer means “Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stemmer is stemmers.

How many letters and syllables are in stemmer?

Letters7: S-T-E-M-M-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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).

How common is stemmer?

Stemmer appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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 stemmer?

    Stemmer 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).

    Forms of stemmer

    • stemmers plural

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

    What does stemmer mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.

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

    Where does stemmer come from?

    From stem + -er.

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

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