Pocket calculators are as cheap to buy as a pair of socks, and as essential to thousands of British school children as a pencil and eraser.
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Eraser
/ɪˈɹeɪzə/
Synonyms for "eraser" (15 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: chalk, delete tool, erase tool, eraser tool, goma.
- Sentence evidence is available for eraser, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from derived_reverse, opengloss.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "eraser".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "eraser"
Keep "eraser" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "eraser" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "eraser", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "eraser" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
4 entriesMore specific
7 entriesbritish termgrayscale erasergum eraserhard eraserplastic erasersoft eraservinyl eraser
Collocations
6 entriesdual-ended erasereraser dustgum eraserpencil eraserplastic eraserrubber eraser
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesTranslations
150 translations across 94 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- uitveër noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Albanian
2 entries- gomë noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- llastik noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Arabic
4 entries- أَسْتِيكَة noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- ممحة noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- مَحَّاية noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- مَحَّايَة noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Armenian
1 entries- ռետին noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܫܵܝܘܿܦܬܵܐ noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- pozan noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Bashkir
1 entries- юйғыс noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Basque
1 entries- ezabagoma noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Belarusian
2 entries- гу́мка noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- ла́сцік noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Bengali
2 entries- গাম noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- রবার noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гу́ма noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- гу́ма за трие́не noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Burmese
2 entries- ခဲဖျက် noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- ဖော့ဖျက် noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Catalan
2 entries- goma noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- goma d'esborrar noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 擦紙膠 /擦纸胶 noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- 擦膠 /擦胶 noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- 膠擦 /胶擦 noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 橡皮 noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- 橡皮擦 noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- 橡皮擦子 noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Czech
2 entries- guma noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- zmizík noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Danish
1 entries- viskelæder noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Dari
1 entries- پِنْسِلپَاک noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Dutch
2 entries- gom noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- gum noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Elfdalian
2 entries- gnuk noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- sudd noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Esperanto
1 entries- skrapgumo noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Estonian
2 entries- kustukumm noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- kustutuskumm noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Faroese
2 entries- viskileður noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- viskuleður noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Finnish
2 entries- kumi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- pyyhekumi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
French
3 entries- efface noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- effaceur noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- gomme noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Galician
1 entries- goma noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Georgian
1 entries- საშლელი noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
German
3 entries- Gummi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- Radierer noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- Radiergummi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Greek
1 entries- γομολάστιχα noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Greenlandic
1 entries- piiaat noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Gujarati
1 entries- છેકણી noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַחַק noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Hindi
3 entries- खुरचनी noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- रबड़ noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- रबर noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Hungarian
3 entries- gumi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- radír noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- radírgumi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Icelandic
1 entries- strokleður noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Ido
1 entries- efacilo noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Indonesian
1 entries- penghapus noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- مِدادْپاککُن noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- پاککُن noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Irish
1 entries- scriosán noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Italian
1 entries- gomma noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Japanese
1 entries- 消しゴム noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- buraxa noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Kalmyk
1 entries- биллүр noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Kapampangan
1 entries- pangbura noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Kazakh
1 entries- өшіргіш noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Khmer
1 entries- ជ័រលុប noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Korean
1 entries- 지우개 noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- өчүргүч noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Lao
2 entries- ຢາງລຶບ noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- ແປງລຶບກະດານ noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Latvian
1 entries- dzēšgumija noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Lithuanian
1 entries- trintukas noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Gummi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Macedonian
1 entries- гума noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Malay
2 entries- getah pemadam noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- pemadam noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Maltese
1 entries- gomma noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Marathi
2 entries- खोडरबर noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- रबर noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Mongolian
1 entries- баллуур noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Māori
1 entries- muku noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Navajo
1 entries- bee kʼééʼálchxǫǫhí noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- jêbir noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- viskelær noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- viskelêr noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Pashto
1 entries- پنسل پاک noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Polish
1 entries- gumka noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Portuguese
2 entries- borracha noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- safa noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Quechua
1 entries- qillqa pichana noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Rohingya
1 entries- búzoni noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Romanian
2 entries- gumă de șters noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- radieră noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Romansch
1 entries- gumma noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Russian
4 entries- ла́стик noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- рези́нка noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- стира́лка noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- стира́тельная рези́нка noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- gȕmica noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- гу̏мица noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Slovak
1 entries- guma noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Slovene
1 entries- radirka noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Southern Altai
1 entries- ӧчӱргиш noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Spanish
3 entries- borra noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- borrador noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- goma de borrar noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Swahili
1 entries- kifutio noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Swedish
3 entries- radergummi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- sudd noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- suddgummi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Tagalog
2 entries- pamahi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- pambura noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Tajik
2 entries- хаткуркунак noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- хаткӯркунак noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Tamil
1 entries- ரப்பர் noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Thai
1 entries- ยางลบ noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Tigrinya
1 entries- መደምሰስ noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Turkish
1 entries- silgi noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Turkmen
1 entries- bozguç noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Ukrainian
2 entries- гу́мка noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- ґу́мка noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- drapak noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Urdu
2 entries- رَبَڑ noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- کُھرَچْنی noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Uyghur
2 entries- ئۆچۈرگۈچ noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- سۈرتكۈچ noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Uzbek
3 entries- lastik noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- oʻchirgich noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- oʻchirgʻich noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Vietnamese
3 entries- cái tẩy noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- cục gôm noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- tẩy chì noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Volapük
1 entries- radagumot noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Welsh
1 entries- rwber noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Yami
1 entries- ipangongopas noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Yiddish
2 entries- גומקע noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
- מעקער noun (thing used to erase something written or drawn)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Can I borrow your eraser for a moment?
Source: tatoeba (39983)
Rub out these words with your eraser.
Source: tatoeba (268143)
May I borrow your eraser?
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Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "eraser"?
Closest matches include chalk, delete tool, erase tool, eraser tool, goma.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "eraser"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.