hopper

Other forms of hopper

plural

hoppers·

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 hopper

What does hopper mean?

hopper means "funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hopper?

hopper has 2 syllables: hop-per. The stress falls on "hop". In IPA it is /ˈhɑpɚ/.

What is another word for hopper?

Close synonyms include hop-picker, grasshopper, grounder, ground ball, groundball. 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 hopper a common word?

hopper 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.

What rhymes with hopper?

2 words rhyme with hopper. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.