officeholder

Other forms of officeholder

plural

officeholders·

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 officeholder

What does officeholder mean?

officeholder means "someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in officeholder?

officeholder has 4 syllables: of-fice-hol-der. The stress falls on "of". In IPA it is /ˈɔfəsˌhoʊldɚ/.

What is another word for officeholder?

Close synonyms include officer, incumbent. 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 officeholder a common word?

officeholder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 officeholder?

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