manufacturer

Other forms of manufacturer

plural

manufacturers·

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 manufacturer

What does manufacturer mean?

manufacturer means "a business engaged in manufacturing some product". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manufacturer?

manufacturer has 5 syllables: man-u-fac-tu-rer. The stress falls on "fac". In IPA it is /ˌmænjəˈfæktʃɚɚ/.

What is another word for manufacturer?

Close synonyms include maker, manufacturing business, producer. 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 manufacturer a common word?

manufacturer 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.