fleer

Other forms of fleer

plural

fleers·

past tense

fleered·

present participle

fleering·

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 fleer

What does fleer mean?

fleer means "someone who flees from an uncongenial situation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fleer?

fleer has 1 syllable: fleer. In IPA it is /ˈflɪɹ/.

What is another word for fleer?

Close synonyms include fugitive, runaway. 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 fleer a common word?

fleer 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.