hurler

Other forms of hurler

plural

hurlers·

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 hurler

What does hurler mean?

hurler means "(baseball) the person who does the pitching".

How many syllables are in hurler?

hurler has 2 syllables: hur-ler. The stress falls on "hur".

What is another word for hurler?

Close synonyms include pitcher, twirler. 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 hurler a common word?

hurler 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.