climber

Other forms of climber

plural

climbers·

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 climber

What does climber mean?

climber means "a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in climber?

climber has 2 syllables: clim-ber. The stress falls on "clim". In IPA it is /ˈklaɪmɚ/.

What is another word for climber?

Close synonyms include social climber, mounter, crampon, crampoon, climbing iron. 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 climber a common word?

climber 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.