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er¹

  • /ɜː/
  • /ɜɹ/ US
  • [ɝ] US

Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Mimetic (sound of hesitation).

interjection err

  1. informal Said when hesitating in speech. “Er...Feathered Omen, hoot not,” he continued uneasily, “Son of Tanit, hoot not!”

    Similar: ah, eh, erm, uh, um

verb ers · erring · erred · err

  1. informal, intransitive, transitive To utter the word er when hesitating in speech. um and er

    Similar: ah, eh, um, hem and haw

noun ers · err

  1. An occurrence of the interjection "er". Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohib

er²

  • /ɜː/
  • /ɜɹ/ US
  • [ɝ] US

Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)

noun ers · err

  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Р / р.

Er³

Where it comes from

From Turkish Er, or from Hokkien 余 (Îr) or Teochew 余 (e5).

proper noun Ers

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.

ER⁴

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

proper noun E.R. · E. R.

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Elizabeth Regina (“Queen Elizabeth”).
  2. UK, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Edward Rex (on coins, letterboxes, etc.) The royal cypher for Edward VII, king of Great Britain

    Similar: EVIIR

  3. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Eleanor Roosevelt
  4. US, abbreviation Abbreviation of Erie (“Erie, Pennsylvania, USA”).

noun ERs · E.R. · E. R.

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of earned run
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of endoplasmic reticulum
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of entity-relationship
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of emergency room
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of estrogen receptor
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Einstein-Rosen bridge
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of enhanced radiation

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: erbium, pray, ev, nev, fath, geth, isst, knm, riv, sprach, blunder, mistake, lapse, misjudge, miscalculate, misstep

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intj hesitating in speech

Русскийэм em

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@misc{er_2026,
  title = {er},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/er},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}