riveter

Other forms of riveter

plural

riveters·

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 riveter

What does riveter mean?

riveter means "a worker who inserts and hammers rivets". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in riveter?

riveter has 3 syllables: ri-ve-ter. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for riveter?

Close synonyms include rivetter, riveting machine, rivetter. 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 riveter a common word?

riveter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.