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say it: SPLIT-ur
splitter is a noun meaning "a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone". It is pronounced /ˈsplɪtɚ/ — SPLIT-ur. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for splitter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.