inventor

Other forms of inventor

plural

inventors·

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 inventor

What does inventor mean?

inventor means "someone who is the first to think of or make something".

How many syllables are in inventor?

inventor has 3 syllables: in-ven-tor. The stress falls on "ven". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈvɛntɚ/.

What is another word for inventor?

Close synonyms include discoverer, artificer. 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 inventor a common word?

inventor 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 inventor?

1 word rhymes with inventor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.