canvasser

Other forms of canvasser

plural

canvassers·

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 canvasser

What does canvasser mean?

canvasser means "a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in canvasser?

canvasser has 3 syllables: can-vas-ser. The stress falls on "can".

What is another word for canvasser?

Close synonyms include solicitor, scrutineer, pollster, poll taker, headcounter. 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 canvasser a common word?

canvasser 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.