pretender

Other forms of pretender

plural

pretenders·

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 pretender

What does pretender mean?

pretender means "a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pretender?

pretender has 3 syllables: pre-ten-der. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /pɹiˈtɛndɚ/.

What is another word for pretender?

Close synonyms include imposter, impostor, fake, faker, fraud. 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 pretender a common word?

pretender 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 pretender?

3 words rhyme with pretender. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.