creeper

Other forms of creeper

plural

creepers·

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 creeper

What does creeper mean?

creeper means "any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in creeper?

creeper has 2 syllables: cree-per. The stress falls on "cree".

What is another word for creeper?

Close synonyms include crawler, tree 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 creeper a common word?

creeper 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.