gainer

Other forms of gainer

plural

gainers·

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 gainer

What does gainer mean?

gainer means "a person who gains weight". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gainer?

gainer has 2 syllables: gai-ner. The stress falls on "gai". In IPA it is /ˈɡeɪnɚ/.

What is another word for gainer?

Close synonyms include weight gainer, full gainer. 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 gainer a common word?

gainer 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.