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streamer

/ˈstɹiːmɚ/noun

streamer is spelled S-T-R-E-A-M-E-R: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, streamer means “A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of streamer is streamers.

How many letters and syllables are in streamer?

Letters8: S-T-R-E-A-M-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.1 times per million words; the 27,462nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 streamer?

Streamer appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd 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 streamer?

  • /ˈstɹiːmɚ/

Streamer 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-streamer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with streamer?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as streamer.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: remaster, restream.

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 streamer

  • streamers plural

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

What does streamer mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

  2. 2

    Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.

  3. 3

    A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.

  4. 4

    A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.

  5. 5

    Any mechanism for streaming data.

  6. 6

    A subscription service that streams content to an audience.

  7. 7

    A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.

    Most streamers are on Twitch

  8. 8

    In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.

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

Streamer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfanion (long narrow flag), streamer (data storage system), streameur, instavidéaste, joueur-animateur en direct (a person who streams on the Internet)
Portuguesegalhardete (long narrow flag), streamer (a person who streams on the Internet), serpentina (paper)
Spanishstreamer (a person who streams on the Internet), serpentina (paper)
GermanStreamer (a person who streams on the Internet)

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 streamer come from?

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

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

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