philanderer

Other forms of philanderer

plural

philanderers·

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 philanderer

What does philanderer mean?

philanderer means "a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them".

How many syllables are in philanderer?

philanderer has 4 syllables: phi-lan-der-er. The stress falls on "lan". In IPA it is /fəˈlænˌdɛɹɚ/.

What is another word for philanderer?

Close synonyms include womanizer, womaniser. 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 philanderer a common word?

philanderer 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.