footballer

Other forms of footballer

plural

footballers·

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 footballer

What does footballer mean?

footballer means "an athlete who plays American football".

How many syllables are in footballer?

footballer has 3 syllables and divides as foot-bal-ler under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for footballer?

Close synonyms include football player. 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 footballer a common word?

footballer 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.