crawler

Other forms of crawler

plural

crawlers·

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 crawler

What does crawler mean?

crawler means "a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crawler?

crawler has 2 syllables: craw-ler. The stress falls on "craw". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɔlɚ/.

What is another word for crawler?

Close synonyms include sycophant, toady, lackey, ass-kisser, creeper. 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 crawler a common word?

crawler is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.