precursor

Other forms of precursor

plural

precursors·

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 precursor

What does precursor mean?

precursor means "a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in precursor?

precursor has 3 syllables: pre-cur-sor. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /pɹiˈkɝsɚ/.

What is another word for precursor?

Close synonyms include forerunner, harbinger, forerunner, predecessor, herald. 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 precursor a common word?

precursor 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.

What rhymes with precursor?

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