killer

Other forms of killer

plural

killers·

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 killer

What does killer mean?

killer means "someone who causes the death of a person or animal". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in killer?

killer has 2 syllables: kil-ler. The stress falls on "kil". In IPA it is /ˈkɪlɚ/.

What is another word for killer?

Close synonyms include slayer, cause of death, killer whale, orca, grampus. 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 killer a common word?

killer 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 killer?

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