finder

Other forms of finder

plural

finders·

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 finder

What does finder mean?

finder means "someone who comes upon something after searching". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in finder?

finder has 2 syllables: fin-der. The stress falls on "fin". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪndɚ/.

What is another word for finder?

Close synonyms include discoverer, spotter, viewfinder, view finder. 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 finder a common word?

finder is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 finder?

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