Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shredder

/ʃɹɛdə(ɹ)/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English

Syllables
shred-der
IPA
/ʃɹɛdə(ɹ)/
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who shreds or tears something.

noun

A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.

noun

A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.

noun

Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder.

Slang

noun

One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.

Etymology

Etymology tree English shred Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English shredder From shred + -er.

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Music.

Inflected Forms

shredders (plural)

Phrases

file shredder nerve-shredder paper shredder

Rhymes With

header cheddar spreader fedor eder vedder redder feder tedder deader raeder schraeder

Questions

How do you pronounce shredder?
The recorded pronunciation is /ʃɹɛdə(ɹ)/.
What does shredder mean?
One who shreds or tears something.
Where does shredder come from?
Etymology tree English shred Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English shredder From shred + -er.

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