fastener

Other forms of fastener

plural

fasteners·

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 fastener

What does fastener mean?

fastener means "a person who fastens or makes fast". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fastener?

fastener has 3 syllables: fas-te-ner. The stress falls on "fas". In IPA it is /ˈfæsənɚ/.

What is another word for fastener?

Close synonyms include fastening, holdfast, fixing. 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 fastener a common word?

fastener 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.