painkiller

Other forms of painkiller

plural

painkillers·

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 painkiller

What does painkiller mean?

painkiller means "a medicine used to relieve pain".

How many syllables are in painkiller?

painkiller has 3 syllables: pain-kil-ler. The stress falls on "pain". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪnˌkɪlɚ/.

What is another word for painkiller?

Close synonyms include analgesic, anodyne, pain pill. 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 painkiller a common word?

painkiller 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 painkiller?

1 word rhymes with painkiller. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.