employee

Other forms of employee

plural

employees·

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 employee

What does employee mean?

employee means "a worker who is hired to perform a job".

How many syllables are in employee?

employee has 3 syllables: em-ploy-ee. The stress falls on "ploy". In IPA it is /ɛmˈplɔɪi/.

What is the opposite of employee?

The recorded antonyms are employer.

Is employee a common word?

employee is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.