commander

Other forms of commander

plural

commanders·

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 commander

What does commander mean?

commander means "an officer in command of a military unit". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in commander?

commander has 3 syllables: com-man-der. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /kəˈmændɚ/.

What is another word for commander?

Close synonyms include commanding officer, commandant, air force officer. 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 commander a common word?

commander 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.

What rhymes with commander?

2 words rhyme with commander. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.