worker
/ˈwɝ.kɚ/noun
worker is spelled W-O-R-K-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, worker means “One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of worker is workers.
How many letters and syllables are in worker?
| Letters | 6: W-O-R-K-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 27 times per million words; the 3,422nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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 worker?
Worker appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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 worker?
- UK /ˈwɜː.kə/
- US /ˈwɝ.kɚ/
Worker 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-worker.ogg, En-uk-worker.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with worker?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as worker from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹkəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: rework.
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 worker
- workers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does worker mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
Near-synonym: employee
- 2
A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
- 3
rareA female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- 4
A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate worker?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of worker: wkr..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Worker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | travailleur, travailleuse, ouvrier, ouvrière |
| German | Arbeiter, Arbeiterin, Angestellter, Angestellte, Hackler, Hacklerin |
| Portuguese | trabalhador , operário |
| Spanish | trabajador, obrero , obrera |
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.