fighter

Other forms of fighter

plural

fighters·

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 fighter

What does fighter mean?

fighter means "someone who fights (or is fighting)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fighter?

fighter has 2 syllables: figh-ter. The stress falls on "figh". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪtɚ/.

What is another word for fighter?

Close synonyms include combatant, battler, belligerent, scrapper, fighter aircraft. 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 fighter a common word?

fighter 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.

What rhymes with fighter?

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