crater

Other forms of crater

plural

craters·

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 crater

What does crater mean?

crater means "a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crater?

crater has 2 syllables: cra-ter. The stress falls on "cra". In IPA it is /ˈkɹeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for crater?

Close synonyms include volcanic crater. 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 crater a common word?

crater 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.