client

Other forms of client

plural

clients·

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 client

What does client mean?

client means "a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in client?

client has 2 syllables: cli-ent. The stress falls on "cli". In IPA it is /ˈklaɪənt/.

What is another word for client?

Close synonyms include customer, node, guest. 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 client a common word?

client is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.