breaker

Other forms of breaker

plural

breakers·

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 breaker

What does breaker mean?

breaker means "a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breaker?

breaker has 2 syllables: brea-ker. The stress falls on "brea". In IPA it is /ˈbɹeɪkɚ/.

What is another word for breaker?

Close synonyms include ledgeman, surf, breakers, circuit breaker. 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 breaker a common word?

breaker is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 breaker?

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