opener

Other forms of opener

plural

openers·

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 opener

What does opener mean?

opener means "the first event in a series". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in opener?

opener has 3 syllables: o-pe-ner. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊpənɚ/.

What is another word for opener?

Close synonyms include undoer, unfastener, untier. 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 opener a common word?

opener 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.