Schemer

Definition: Schemer

Schemer

Noun

1. A planner who draws up a personal scheme of action.

Date "schemer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Synonym: Schemer

Synonym: plotter (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Plan	Schemer, schemist, schematist; strategist, machinator; projector, artist, promoter, designer; Verb: conspirator; intrigant; (cunning).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Schemer

English words defined with "schemer": politician ♦ Schematist, Schemist. (references)

Etymologies containing "schemer": Schemist. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Schemer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (dusk, twilight).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Schemer (1956)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Fair Schemer (reference) My Lady Schemer (reference) Sabrina the Schemer (reference) Sporen in de schemer : contouren van Gereformeerd bestaan op de drempel van de 21e eeuw : een inleiding op het Gereformeerde denken in een geseculariseerde samenleving (reference) Statesman and schemer; William, First Lord Paget, Tudor Minister (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Lazy little schemer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Schemer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Schemer" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	18	82,615

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "schemer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ngatërrestar (busybody, intrigant, meddlesome, mischief maker, scandalmonger, troublemaker), intrigant (designer, intriguer, mischief maker). (various references)

Arabic		‏المكيد, ‏المتآمر (conspirator, designer, plotter), ‏المخطط (draftsman, draughtsman, planner), ‏المدبر. (various references)

Bulgarian		нечестен човек, интригант (intrigant, intriguant, intriguer, machinator, mischief maker, scandalmonger, spider, wriggler). (various references)

Czech		spiklenec (conspirator, plotter), intrikán (intriguer, troublemaker). (various references)

Farsi		تمهیدکننده . (various references)

Finnish		vehkeilijä (conspirator, plotter), juonittelija (plotter). (various references)

French		planificateur, intrigant (scheming), conspirateur, comploteur. (various references)

German		raffinierter schlawiner, ränkeschmied (intriguer), intrigant (designing, intriguer, machinator, plotting, scheming). (various references)

Greek		σκευωρόσ (michinator), σχεδιαστήσ (designer, draftsman, draughtsman, framer, modeler, planner, projector, sketcher, stylist), μηχανορράφοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		תחבולן (trickster), זומם (conspirator, plotter). (various references)

Hungarian		cselszövő (shifter, villain). (various references)

Italian		intrigante (busybody, designing, intrigant, intriguant, intriguing, machinator, meddler, piquant, scheming). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		謀臣 (strategist, tactician), 軍師 (strategist, tactician), 策士 (intriguer, machinator, tactician), 古狸 (old badger, old fox, oldtimer, veteran), 古狐 (old fox, old-timer), 仕事師 (enterpriser, workman). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		し�"とし (enterpriser, workman), ぐ�"し (campaign funds, military expenses, soldiers, strategist, tactician, truce bearer, war fund, war materiel), ぼうし�" (blind acceptance, blind belief, credulity, deceased parent, strategist, tactician), さくし (intriguer, machinator, song making, tactician, verse making, versification, yesterdays paper), ふるぎつね (old fox, old-timer), ふるきつね (old fox, old-timer), ふる� ぬき (old badger, old fox, oldtimer, veteran). (various references)

Manx		kialgeyr (cheat, con man, deceitful person, deceiver, double-dealer, fiddler, fly boy, hypocrite, illusionist, plotter, swindler, trickster, twister), cummeydagh (able, competent, inventive, old Manx sheep dog, powerful, well-shaped), crouteyr. (various references)

Pig Latin		emerschay

Portuguese		maquinador (designer, hatchery, machinator), intrigante (designing, intriguant, intrigue, intriguing, telltale). (various references)

Romanian		urzitor, uneltitor (conspirator), proiectant (designer, draftsman, draughtsman, mill wright, planner), intrigant (designer, designing, intrigant, intriguer, intriguing, manoeuvrer, mischief maker, plotter, scandal monger, scheming, wire puller). (various references)

Russian		интриган (hatcher, intrigant, intrigante, intriguant, mischief maker, mischief-maker, wirepuller). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		krojilac planova, intrigant (intrigant). (various references)

Spanish		intrigante (designing, intriguant, intriguing, machinator, scheming). (various references)

Swedish		intrigmakare (designer, intriguer, machinator). (various references)

Thai		ผู้วางแผนการ. (various references)

Turkish		plancı (planner), komplocu (conspirator, plotter), entrikacı (intriguer, intriguing, plotter, scheming), dolap çeviren kimse. (various references)

Ukranian		інтриган (intrigant, intriguant, intriguer, plotter, trafficker), прожектер (projector). (various references)

Vietnamese		người vạch kế hoạch người chủ mưu, kẻ hay dùng mưu gian, kẻ âm mưu (machinator, plotter). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "schemer": schemers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Schemer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Echenard, Eschenberg, Icheme, sceemer, sceme, Schaer, schame, schee, scheher, scheie, schem, schemy, Schenke, Schenley, scherer, Schermer, Scheuer, Schimper, schirmer, Schleier, Schlemmer, schmeer, schmoe, Schmuel, Schmur, Schneer, schneken, schober, Schoemel, Schreker, Schumer, Schweber, Schwimmer, Scjeme, shceme, sheemmer, Shemar, Shemara, Shemer, Shomer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "schemer" (pronounced skē"mer)
3	-ē" m er	Creamer, dreamer, femur, lemur, reamer, screamer, steamer, streamer.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: schmeer.
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-m-r-s"
	-1 letter: cheers, creesh, cremes, rehems, scheme.
	-2 letters: ceres, cheer, creme, eches, hemes, heres, herms, meres, rehem, scree, sheer.
	-3 letters: cees, cere, eche, emes, heme, hems, here, herm, hers, mere, mesh, recs, rees, rems, resh, seem, seer, seme, sere.
	-4 letters: cee, eme, ems, ere, ers, hem, her, hes, rec, ree, rem, res, sec, see, ser, she.
	-5 letters: eh, em, er, es, he, hm, me, re, sh.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-m-r-s"
	+1 letter: cashmere, chimeres, machrees, marchese, schemers, schmeers.
	+2 letters: cashmeres, charmeuse, comethers, demarches, menarches, rematches, schmeered.
	+3 letters: besmirched, besmirches, charmeuses, chemurgies, chernozems, ectotherms, meerschaum, overmuches, schmeering.
	+4 letters: aerenchymas, archenemies, bedchambers, champerties, chemisorbed, chemistries, chromomeres, comprehends, echinoderms, embouchures, enrichments, hectometers, hemispheric, hemstitcher, hermeticism, heteroecism, homestretch, hypermnesic, machineries, mechanizers, meerschaums, merchandise, mesonephric, mesospheric, microsphere, overmatches, preachments, schwarmerei, spermatheca, tachometers, thermoscope, weltschmerz.
	+5 letters: antechambers, beachcombers, benchwarmers, chemosurgery, chromosphere, chronometers, euhemeristic, geochemistry, hemerocallis, hemstitchers, hermeneutics, hermeticisms, heteroecisms, homeschooler, hysterectomy, merchandised, merchandiser, merchandises, merchandizes, mesothoraces, metathoraces, microspheres, neurochemist, psychrometer, schwarmereis, sclerenchyma, spermathecae, theocentrism, thermoclines, thermoscopes.
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