-er
"-er" in a Sentence (63 examples)
read + -er → reader
cook + -er → cooker
compute + -er → computer
run + -er → runner
toast + -er → toaster
swim + -er → swimmer
do good + -er → do-gooder
look + -er → looker (“an attractive person”)
keep + -er → keeper (“a person or thing worth keeping”)
astrology + -er → astrologer
baby boom + -er → baby boomer
conlang + -er → conlanger
cricket + -er → cricketer
trumpet + -er → trumpeter
zine + -er → ziner
six + -er → sixer
six foot + -er → six-footer
three-wheel + -er → three-wheeler
first grade + -er → first grader
percent + -er → percenter (“commission agent”)
one hand + -er → one-hander (“one-man show”)
oat + -er → oater (“a Western-themed movie”)
birth + -er → birther
flat earth + -er → flat-earther
truth + -er → truther
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woke + -er → woker
bacon + -er → baconer (“pig raised for bacon”)
chocolate chip + -er → chocolate chipper (“cookie containing chocolate chips”)
sternwheel + -er → sternwheeler (“vessel driven by a sternwheel”)
piss + -er → pisser (“a hilariously funny event or situation”)
New York + -er → New Yorker
London + -er → Londoner
Dublin + -er → Dubliner
New England + -er → New Englander
island + -er → islander
highland + -er → highlander
East End + -er → East-Ender
childer, calver, lamber, linder ("loins")
hard + -er → harder
wet + -er → wetter
motley + -er → motlier
eerie + -er → eerier
clayey + -er → clayier
twitter, clamber, bicker, mutter, wander, flutter, flicker, slither, smother, sputter
disclaim + -er → disclaimer
remit + -er → remitter
misname + -er → misnomer
rebut + -er → rebutter
attain + -er → attainder
shive + -er → shiver
slive + -er → sliver
splint + -er → splinter
association + -er → soccer (“association football”)
football + -er → footer (“association football”)
rugby + -er → rugger
Radcliffe + -er → Radder (“a building at Oxford University”)
clive + -er → cliver (“apt to cleave or adhere to, tenacious, expert as seizing”)
slip + -er → slipper (“tending to make slip, slippery”)
wake + -er → waker (“tending to wake, watchful”)
Li’er said hello to his father.
Yue’er began to laugh again and her tears shimmered like dew on a lotus leaf disturbed by a breeze. Then we heard a sound. It was Man’er.
The fish was laid out on the table, but Ping’er had not come back, nor had his father.
Ying’er was not yet three years old. Li’er had always been the one to play with her or to carry her places on his back.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.