dockworker

Other forms of dockworker

plural

dockworkers·

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 dockworker

What does dockworker mean?

dockworker means "a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port".

How many syllables are in dockworker?

dockworker has 3 syllables: doc-kwor-ker. The stress falls on "doc". In IPA it is /ˈdɑˌkwɝkɚ/.

What is another word for dockworker?

Close synonyms include stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand. 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 dockworker a common word?

dockworker 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.