gnawer

Other forms of gnawer

plural

gnawers·

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 gnawer

What does gnawer mean?

gnawer means "relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing".

How many syllables are in gnawer?

gnawer has 2 syllables: gna-wer. The stress falls on "gna".

What is another word for gnawer?

Close synonyms include rodent. 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 gnawer a common word?

gnawer 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.