roberts

Other forms of roberts

plural

robertses·

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 roberts

What does roberts mean?

roberts means "United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roberts?

roberts has 2 syllables: ro-berts. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˈɹɑbɚts/.

What is another word for roberts?

Close synonyms include Richard J. Roberts, Richard John Roberts, Oral Roberts, Kenneth Roberts, Bartholomew Roberts. 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 roberts a common word?

roberts is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.