Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fuzzer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English

Syllables: fuzzer
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A software program that performs fuzz testing.

Example Sentences

"You should be able to write a simple fuzzer that hits your arguments to make sure your program is properly checking inputs. Actually, I would take this time to write a fuzzer to just learn how they are built."
"Found this bug on my own, no need for a fuzzer"
"In exchange for this additional complexity it is more efficient in finding bugs than fuzzers that blindly generate inputs with rand."

Etymology

From fuzz + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: fuzz

Inflected Forms

fuzzers (plural)

Questions

What does fuzzer mean?: A software program that performs fuzz testing.
Where does fuzzer come from?: From fuzz + -er.

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