pedagogue

Other forms of pedagogue

plural

pedagogues·

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 pedagogue

What does pedagogue mean?

pedagogue means "someone who educates young people".

How many syllables are in pedagogue?

pedagogue has 4 syllables: pe-da-go-gue. The stress falls on "da".

What is another word for pedagogue?

Close synonyms include educator, pedagog. 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 pedagogue a common word?

pedagogue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.