ringer

Other forms of ringer

plural

ringers·

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 ringer

What does ringer mean?

ringer means "a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ringer?

ringer has 2 syllables: rin-ger. The stress falls on "rin". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪŋɚ/.

What is another word for ringer?

Close synonyms include toller, bell ringer, dead ringer, clone. 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 ringer a common word?

ringer 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 ringer?

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