dweller

Other forms of dweller

plural

dwellers·

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 dweller

What does dweller mean?

dweller means "a person who inhabits a particular place".

How many syllables are in dweller?

dweller has 2 syllables: dwel-ler. The stress falls on "dwel". In IPA it is /ˈdwɛlɚ/.

What is another word for dweller?

Close synonyms include inhabitant, habitant, denizen, indweller. 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 dweller a common word?

dweller 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.