hedger

Other forms of hedger

plural

hedgers·

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 hedger

What does hedger mean?

hedger means "a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hedger?

hedger has 2 syllables: hed-ger. The stress falls on "hed". In IPA it is /ˈhɛdʒɚ/.

What is another word for hedger?

Close synonyms include equivocator, tergiversator. 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 hedger a common word?

hedger 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.