# streamer

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈstɹiːmɚ/ · frequency rank #27,661

## Definitions
1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
3. A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
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. Any mechanism for streaming data.
6. A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
7. A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
8. In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
9. One who searches for stream tin.
10. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
11. A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).

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

## Easily confused with
- **streams** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/streamer-vs-streams)
- **stream** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stream-vs-streamer)
- **steamer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/steamer-vs-streamer)
- **steamed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/steamed-vs-streamer)
- **streamed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/streamed-vs-streamer)
- **screamer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screamer-vs-streamer)
- **spreader** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spreader-vs-streamer)

## Common misspellings (12)
`srteamer`, `sstreamer`, `steramer`, `straemer`, `streaemr`, `streamerr`, `streammer`, `streamre`, `stremaer`, `strreamer`, `sttreamer`, `tsreamer`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/streamer