boarder

Other forms of boarder

plural

boarders·

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 boarder

What does boarder mean?

boarder means "a tenant in someone's house". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boarder?

boarder has 2 syllables: boar-der. The stress falls on "boar". In IPA it is /ˈbɔɹdɚ/.

What is another word for boarder?

Close synonyms include lodger, roomer. 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 boarder a common word?

boarder 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.

What rhymes with boarder?

2 words rhyme with boarder. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.