repeater

Other forms of repeater

plural

repeaters·

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 repeater

What does repeater mean?

repeater means "a person who repeats". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repeater?

repeater has 3 syllables: re-pea-ter. The stress falls on "pea". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈpitɚ/.

What is another word for repeater?

Close synonyms include recidivist, habitual criminal, repeating firearm. 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 repeater a common word?

repeater 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 repeater?

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