hamburger

Other forms of hamburger

plural

hamburgers·

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 hamburger

What does hamburger mean?

hamburger means "a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hamburger?

hamburger has 3 syllables: ham-bur-ger. The stress falls on "ham". In IPA it is /ˈhæmbɚɡɚ/.

What is another word for hamburger?

Close synonyms include beefburger, burger, ground beef. 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 hamburger a common word?

hamburger is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.