plodder

Other forms of plodder

plural

plodders·

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 plodder

What does plodder mean?

plodder means "someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plodder?

plodder has 2 syllables: plod-der. The stress falls on "plod".

What is another word for plodder?

Close synonyms include trudger, slogger, slogger, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud. 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 plodder a common word?

plodder 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.