Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fracker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables: frack-er
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person or organization employed in fracking.

Example Sentences

"Slowly, they marched toward a bigger role in the fracking industry. When competing Texas frackers looked to freeze the brothers out from the companies that distribute the sand needed to drill, the siblings opened their own sand quarry to thrive."
"Conoco on Monday announced a $9.7 billion all-stock takeover of Concho Resources (CXO), a fracker squarely focused on the Permian Basin, the massive West Texas oilfield at the heart of the shale revolution."

Etymology

From frack + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: frack

Inflected Forms

frackers (plural)

Questions

What does fracker mean?: A person or organization employed in fracking.
Where does fracker come from?: From frack + -er.

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