debtor

Other forms of debtor

plural

debtors·

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 debtor

What does debtor mean?

debtor means "a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt".

How many syllables are in debtor?

debtor has 2 syllables: deb-tor. The stress falls on "deb". In IPA it is /ˈdɛtɚ/.

What is another word for debtor?

Close synonyms include debitor. 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.

What is the opposite of debtor?

The recorded antonyms are creditor.

Is debtor a common word?

debtor 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.