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tuner

/ˈtuː.nɚ/noun

tuner is spelled T-U-N-E-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tuner means “A person who tunes a piano or organ” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tuner is tuners.

How many letters and syllables are in tuner?

Letters5: T-U-N-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 32,393rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

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 tuner?

Tuner appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd 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 tuner?

  • US /ˈtuː.nɚ/
  • UK /ˈtjuː.nə/
  • UK /ˈtʃuː.nə/

Tuner 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: En-us-tuner.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with tuner

Sounds like: tuna (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with tuner?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tuner from its last stressed vowel (/unəɹ/):

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 tuner

  • tuners plural

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

What does tuner mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person who tunes a piano or organ.

  2. 2

    A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch.

  3. 3

    On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string.

  4. 4

    The component of an audio system that receives radio broadcasts.

  5. 5

    archaicOne who sings or makes music.

  6. 6

    informalA musical.

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

Tuner in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchaccordeur (person who tunes a piano or organ), tuner, syntoniseur, syntonisateur (the component of an audio system that receives…)
Spanishafinador (person who tunes a piano or organ), sintonizador (the component of an audio system that receives…)
Portugueseafinador (device that shows the deviation of the played…)

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 tuner come from?

From tune (verb) + -er.

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

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