player

Other forms of player

plural

players·

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 player

What does player mean?

player means "a person who participates in or is skilled at some game". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in player?

player has 2 syllables: pla-yer. The stress falls on "pla". In IPA it is /ˈpleɪɚ/.

What is another word for player?

Close synonyms include participant, musician, instrumentalist, actor, histrion. 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 player a common word?

player is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 player?

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