provider

Other forms of provider

plural

providers·

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 provider

What does provider mean?

provider means "someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in provider?

provider has 3 syllables: pro-vi-der. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /pɹəˈvaɪdɚ/.

What is another word for provider?

Close synonyms include supplier. 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 provider a common word?

provider is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 provider?

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