renter

Other forms of renter

plural

renters·

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 renter

What does renter mean?

renter means "someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in renter?

renter has 2 syllables: ren-ter. The stress falls on "ren". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛntɚ/.

What is another word for renter?

Close synonyms include tenant. 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 renter a common word?

renter 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.