passer

Other forms of passer

plural

passers·

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 passer

What does passer mean?

passer means "a person who passes by casually or by chance". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in passer?

passer has 2 syllables: pas-ser. The stress falls on "pas". In IPA it is /ˈpæsɚ/.

What is another word for passer?

Close synonyms include passerby, passer-by, forward passer, genus Passer. 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 passer a common word?

passer 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.