header

Other forms of header

plural

headers·

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 header

What does header mean?

header means "a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in header?

header has 2 syllables: head-er. The stress falls on "head". In IPA it is /ˈhɛdɚ/.

What is another word for header?

Close synonyms include heading, head, lintel, coping, cope. 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 header a common word?

header 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.