merchant

Other forms of merchant

plural

merchants·

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 merchant

What does merchant mean?

merchant means "a businessperson engaged in retail trade".

How many syllables are in merchant?

merchant has 2 syllables: mer-chant. The stress falls on "mer". In IPA it is /ˈmɝtʃənt/.

What is another word for merchant?

Close synonyms include merchandiser. 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 merchant a common word?

merchant 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.