rover

Other forms of rover

plural

rovers·

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 rover

What does rover mean?

rover means "someone who leads a wandering unsettled life". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rover?

rover has 2 syllables: ro-ver. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊvɚ/.

What is another word for rover?

Close synonyms include wanderer, roamer, bird of passage, scouter. 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 rover a common word?

rover 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 rover?

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