placer

1. 1.

   an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral

   Broaderalluvial sediment

Other forms of placer

plural

placers·

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 placer

What does placer mean?

placer means "an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral".

How many syllables are in placer?

placer has 2 syllables: plac-er. The stress falls on "plac". In IPA it is /ˈplæsɚ/.

Is placer a common word?

placer 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.