pacemaker

Other forms of pacemaker

plural

pacemakers·

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 pacemaker

What does pacemaker mean?

pacemaker means "a leading instance in its field". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pacemaker?

pacemaker has 3 syllables: pace-ma-ker. The stress falls on "pace". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪˌsmeɪkɚ/.

What is another word for pacemaker?

Close synonyms include pacesetter, cardiac pacemaker, sinoatrial node, SA node, artificial pacemaker. 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 pacemaker a common word?

pacemaker 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.

What rhymes with pacemaker?

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