filler

Other forms of filler

plural

fillers·

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 filler

What does filler mean?

filler means "used for filling cracks or holes in a surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in filler?

filler has 2 syllables: fil-ler. The stress falls on "fil". In IPA it is /ˈfɪlɚ/.

What is another word for filler?

Close synonyms include makeweight. 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 filler a common word?

filler 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.