excavator

Other forms of excavator

plural

excavators·

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 excavator

What does excavator mean?

excavator means "a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excavator?

excavator has 4 syllables: ex-ca-va-tor. The stress falls on "ex". In IPA it is /ˈɛkskəˌveɪtɚ/.

What is another word for excavator?

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

excavator 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.

What rhymes with excavator?

4 words rhyme with excavator. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.