borer

Other forms of borer

plural

borers·

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 borer

What does borer mean?

borer means "a drill for penetrating rock". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in borer?

borer has 2 syllables: bo-rer. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˈbɔɹɚ/.

What is another word for borer?

Close synonyms include bore bit, rock drill, stone drill, woodborer. 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 borer a common word?

borer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.