governor

Other forms of governor

plural

governors·

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 governor

What does governor mean?

governor means "the head of a state government". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in governor?

governor has 3 syllables: gov-er-nor. The stress falls on "gov". In IPA it is /ˈɡʌvɚnɚ/.

What is another word for governor?

Close synonyms include regulator. 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 governor a common word?

governor is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.