councillor

Questions about councillor

What does councillor mean?

councillor means "a member of a council".

How many syllables are in councillor?

councillor has 3 syllables and divides as coun-cil-lor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for councillor?

Close synonyms include council member. 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 councillor a common word?

councillor 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.