lawyer

Other forms of lawyer

plural

lawyers·

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 lawyer

What does lawyer mean?

lawyer means "a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice".

How many syllables are in lawyer?

lawyer has 2 syllables: la-wyer. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈlɔjɚ/.

What is another word for lawyer?

Close synonyms include attorney. 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 lawyer a common word?

lawyer 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.