feeder

Other forms of feeder

plural

feeders·

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 feeder

What does feeder mean?

feeder means "an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in feeder?

feeder has 2 syllables: fee-der. The stress falls on "fee". In IPA it is /ˈfidɚ/.

What is another word for feeder?

Close synonyms include eater, tributary, confluent, affluent, self-feeder. 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 feeder a common word?

feeder 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 feeder?

1 word rhymes with feeder. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.