blocker

Other forms of blocker

plural

blockers·

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 blocker

What does blocker mean?

blocker means "a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blocker?

blocker has 2 syllables: bloc-ker. The stress falls on "bloc". In IPA it is /ˈblɑkɚ/.

What is another word for blocker?

Close synonyms include blocking agent. 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 blocker a common word?

blocker 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.