catcher

Other forms of catcher

plural

catchers·

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 catcher

What does catcher mean?

catcher means "(baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catcher?

catcher has 2 syllables: cat-cher. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkæˌtʃɝ/.

What is another word for catcher?

Close synonyms include backstop. 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 catcher a common word?

catcher 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.