mountaineer

Other forms of mountaineer

plural

mountaineers·

past tense

mountaineered·

present participle

mountaineering·

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 mountaineer

What does mountaineer mean?

mountaineer means "someone who climbs mountains". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mountaineer?

mountaineer has 3 syllables: moun-tai-neer. The stress falls on "moun". In IPA it is /ˈmaʊntɪˌnɪɹ/.

What is another word for mountaineer?

Close synonyms include mountain climber. 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 mountaineer a common word?

mountaineer 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.

What rhymes with mountaineer?

11 words rhyme with mountaineer. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.