inspector

Other forms of inspector

plural

inspectors·

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 inspector

What does inspector mean?

inspector means "a high ranking police officer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inspector?

inspector has 3 syllables: in-spec-tor. The stress falls on "spec". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈspɛktɚ/.

What is another word for inspector?

Close synonyms include examiner. 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 inspector a common word?

inspector is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 inspector?

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