defaulter

Other forms of defaulter

plural

defaulters·

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 defaulter

What does defaulter mean?

defaulter means "someone who fails to make a required appearance in court". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in defaulter?

defaulter has 3 syllables: de-faul-ter. The stress falls on "faul". In IPA it is /dɪˈfɔltɚ/.

What is another word for defaulter?

Close synonyms include deadbeat. 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 defaulter a common word?

defaulter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with defaulter?

1 word rhymes with defaulter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.