burgher

Other forms of burgher

plural

burghers·

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 burgher

What does burgher mean?

burgher means "a citizen of an English borough". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in burgher?

burgher has 2 syllables: burg-her. The stress falls on "burg". In IPA it is /ˈbɝɡɚ/.

What is another word for burgher?

Close synonyms include burgess, bourgeois. 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 burgher a common word?

burgher 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.

What rhymes with burgher?

1 word rhymes with burgher. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.