Language
- -er, a suffix added to adjectives or adverbs to form a comparative (e.g. fast to faster)
- -er, a suffix added to a verb to make it an agent noun (e.g. cut to cutter)
- Oxford -er, a suffix used to form words like rugger and footer
- "er", a filler (linguistics)
- Er (Cyrillic) (P / p), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet corresponding to the Latin letter "R"
- Er, alternate spelling for Yer (Ъ / ъ), the hard-sign letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
- Er., Hebrew abbreviation for 'Eruvin, the second tractate of Moed
- ER, Spanish language abbreviation for Entre Ríos
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