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tricker

trick·erUK /ˈtɹɪkəː/noun

tricker is spelled T-R-I-C-K-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables (trick·er). It appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tricker means “One who tricks or plays tricks; a practical joker; a prankster” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tricker is trickers.

How many letters and syllables are in tricker?

Letters7: T-R-I-C-K-E-R
Syllables2: trick·er
In writingabout once in every 24 million words; the 148,541st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is tricker?

Tricker appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 tricker?

  • UK /ˈtɹɪkəː/
  • UK [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷɪkəː]
  • UK [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪkəː]

Tricker has 2 syllables, split trick·er in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tricker.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of tricker

  • trickers plural

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

What does tricker mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who tricks or plays tricks; a practical joker; a prankster

  2. 2

    UKobsoleteA trigger.

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

Where does tricker come from?

Derived from trick + -er.

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

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