Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reacher

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

Syllables: reach-er
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who reaches.

noun

A device used to reach something.

noun

A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.

noun

An exaggeration

Obsolete

name

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Example Sentences

"In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it."
"Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers."
"I can hardly believe that Reacher, which another writeth of him, that “with the palms of his hands he could touch his knees, though he stood upright""

Etymology

From reach + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: reach

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

reachers (plural)

Questions

What does reacher mean?: A person who reaches.
Where does reacher come from?: From reach + -er.

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