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checker¹

  • /ˈtʃɛkə/ UK
  • /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɛkə(ɹ)

noun checkers · chequer

  1. One who or that which checks or verifies something. So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling.
  2. One who makes a check mark. "Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."
  3. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.
  4. One who hinders or stops something.

checker²

  • /ˈtʃɛkə/ UK
  • /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɛkə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.

noun checkers · chequer

  1. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
  2. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
  3. An individual square appearing in such a pattern.

verb checkers · checkering · checkered · chequer

  1. transitive To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. On the other hand, who ever tires of the names of Oldfield, and Bracegirdle, and Woffington? All the flutters of the fans of two centuries, and all the solid merits of bodices and petticoats, come down to us in their names; chequering Covent Garden like chintz, and bringing along with them the periw
  2. intransitive To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

checker³

  • /ˈtʃɛkə/ UK
  • /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɛkə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Alteration of chequer.

noun checkers · chequer

  1. The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: check, chequer, controller, editor, auditor, reviser, trier, analyser, correction, comptroller, verifier, parser, analyzer, meter, stay, lady

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noun One who checks or verifies something

Españolverificador, verificadora
Françaisvérificateur, vérificatrice
DeutschPrüfer, Prüferin
Ελληνικάελεγκτής elegktís
Русскийконтролёр kontroljór, учётчик učótčik, билетёр biletjór, че́кер čéker

noun The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment

Ελληνικάταμίας tamías
Русскийкасси́р kassír, касси́рша kassírša

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@misc{checker_2026,
  title = {checker},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/checker},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}