loaner

Other forms of loaner

plural

loaners·

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 loaner

What does loaner mean?

loaner means "someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in loaner?

loaner has 3 syllables: lo-a-ner. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for loaner?

Close synonyms include lender. 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 loaner a common word?

loaner is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.