pacifier

Other forms of pacifier

plural

pacifiers·

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 pacifier

What does pacifier mean?

pacifier means "someone who tries to bring peace". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pacifier?

pacifier has 4 syllables: pac-i-fi-er. The stress falls on "pac". In IPA it is /ˈpæsəˌfaɪɚ/.

What is another word for pacifier?

Close synonyms include conciliator, make-peace, peacemaker, reconciler, comforter. 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 pacifier a common word?

pacifier 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 pacifier?

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