builder

Other forms of builder

plural

builders·

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 builder

What does builder mean?

builder means "a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in builder?

builder has 2 syllables: buil-der. The stress falls on "buil". In IPA it is /ˈbɪldɚ/.

What is another word for builder?

Close synonyms include detergent builder, constructor. 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 builder a common word?

builder 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 builder?

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