digger

Other forms of digger

plural

diggers·

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 digger

What does digger mean?

digger means "a laborer who digs". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in digger?

digger has 2 syllables: dig-ger. The stress falls on "dig". In IPA it is /ˈdɪɡɚ/.

What is another word for digger?

Close synonyms include power shovel, excavator, shovel. 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 digger a common word?

digger 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.