angler

Other forms of angler

plural

anglers·

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 angler

What does angler mean?

angler means "a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in angler?

angler has 2 syllables: an-gler. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈæŋɡlɚ/.

What is another word for angler?

Close synonyms include troller, goosefish, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish. 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 angler a common word?

angler is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.