investigator

Other forms of investigator

plural

investigators·

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 investigator

What does investigator mean?

investigator means "a scientist who devotes himself to doing research". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in investigator?

investigator has 5 syllables: in-ves-ti-ga-tor. The stress falls on "ves". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌɡeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for investigator?

Close synonyms include research worker, researcher, detective, tec, police detective. 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 investigator a common word?

investigator is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 investigator?

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