er

Other forms of er

plural

ers·

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 er

What does er mean?

er means "a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in er?

er has 1 syllable: er. In IPA it is /ɚ/.

What is another word for er?

Close synonyms include erbium, atomic number 68, emergency room. 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 er a common word?

er is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.