woodchipper
noun
woodchipper is a noun meaning “A machine for reducing wood to woodchips” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-O-O-D-C-H-I-P-P-E-R, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of woodchipper is woodchippers.
What does woodchipper mean?
noun
- 1
A machine for reducing wood to woodchips.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of woodchipper
- woodchippers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is woodchipper?
Woodchipper appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).
Woodchipper in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense woodchip making machine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Holzhäcksler, Häcksler, Holzhackmaschine |
| Spanish | astilladora, trituradora de madera |
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 woodchipper come from?
From wood + chipper.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).