accountant

Other forms of accountant

plural

accountants·

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.

Questions about accountant

What does accountant mean?

accountant means "someone who maintains and audits business accounts".

How many syllables are in accountant?

accountant has 3 syllables: ac-coun-tant. The stress falls on "coun". In IPA it is /əˈkaʊntənt/.

What is another word for accountant?

Close synonyms include comptroller, controller. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accountant a common word?

accountant is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.