glutton

Other forms of glutton

plural

gluttons·

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 glutton

What does glutton mean?

glutton means "a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glutton?

glutton has 2 syllables: glut-ton. The stress falls on "glut".

What is another word for glutton?

Close synonyms include gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman, Gulo gulo, wolverine. 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 glutton a common word?

glutton 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.