honker

Other forms of honker

plural

honkers·

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 honker

What does honker mean?

honker means "a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in honker?

honker has 2 syllables: hon-ker. The stress falls on "hon".

What is another word for honker?

Close synonyms include beak, hooter, nozzle, snoot, snout. 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 honker a common word?

honker 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.