undertaker
/ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkə(ɹ)/noun
undertaker is spelled U-N-D-E-R-T-A-K-E-R: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, undertaker means “A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of undertaker is undertakers.
How many letters and syllables are in undertaker?
| Letters | 10: U-N-D-E-R-T-A-K-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 undertaker?
Undertaker appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th 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 undertaker?
- /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkə(ɹ)/
- /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈteɪkə(ɹ)/
Undertaker has 4 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-undertaker.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-undertaker2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of undertaker
- undertakers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does undertaker mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
- 2
A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.
In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.
- 3
A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614.
- 4
rareOne who undertakes or commits to doing something.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate undertaker?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of undertaker: undtkr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Undertaker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | croque-mort, directeur de funérailles, directrice de funérailles, thanatologue , entrepreneur |
| German | Bestatter, Bestatterin, Leichenbestatter, Leichenbestatterin, Beerdigungsunternehmer, Beerdigungsunternehmerin |
| Portuguese | agente funerário, cangalheiro |
| Spanish | director de funeraria |
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 undertaker come from?
From undertake (verb) + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).